Quotes About Status Symbol

#1. Funny how addiction was socially acceptable - even a status symbol - when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

Stacia Kane

#2. Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.

Sam Altman

#3. It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

Hanoi Hannah

#4. A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

William Sansom

#5. Listen, To be modernize it doesn't mean to be rich in wealth or by status but to be rich in wisdom ... !

M.H. Rakib

#6. Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

Fletcher Knebel

#7. In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Arne Jacobsen

#8. What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.

Elsa Peretti

#9. If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth.

Brene Brown

#10. If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.

Simon Cowell

#11. For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Erma Bombeck

#12. By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.

Andrew Dice Clay

#13. And busyness has become a cultural symbol of status. Even though people say they're complaining, they're secretly bragging.

Carnegie Mellon

#14. People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

John Mahoney

#15. A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.

Vivienne Westwood

#16. I believe my past is my strength.

Michel Martelly

#17. Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

Brene Brown

#18. The ultimate luxury possession, the ultimate status symbol is the real and all-to-visible possession of one's own soul.

Alistair Friend

#19. Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that.

Rob Lowe

#20. Every now and then I will play; I try to focus on charitable work. I might do it because it's an offer I can't refuse, so I rally and try to stay in shape and keep myself active.

Andre Agassi

#21. I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion
against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

Johnny Cash

#22. Exhaustion is not a status symbol or a badge of honor. Stop the glorification of busy and learn to nurture your soul.

Amanda Gates

#23. Your divine sagacity is your life's status symbol.

Ogwo David Emenike

#24. A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

Tommy Lee

#25. I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

Emilio Pucci

#26. If God's purpose for your job is that you serve the human community, then the way to serve God best is to do the job as well as it can be done.

Timothy Keller

#27. From reserved parking places to separate bathrooms, the last things managers need are extravagant status symbols that tell them that they are better than the people who work for them.

Dean M. Schroeder

#28. Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Mary Browne

#29. In Indian culture, the woman of the house - the embodiment of the family's honor - treasures her gold jewelry both as her soundest asset and as the symbol of her status.

Shashi Tharoor

#30. The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

Dave Ramsey