Quotes About Status Symbols

#1. I believe in status symbols.

Brooks Stevens

#2. My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

J. Paul Getty

#3. Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Mary Browne

#4. 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

#5. Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.

Ingvar Kamprad

#6. Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.

Danny Meyer

#7. Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

George Harrison

#8. Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

Edmund White

#9. Status symbols mean nothing to me, I am neither impressed by nor scared of money.

Dorethia Conner Kelly

#10. The death of the MG marks the end of one of the most perfect products of free enterprise, born out of the voracious will to succeed of one man and the burgeoning market for middle-class status symbols. The car first appeared as a souped-up Morris Oxford in 1923 when it won the Land's End Rally.

Nick Davies

#11. These items were nothing but ones and zeros stored on the OASIS servers, but they were also status symbols. Most items only cost a few credits, but since they cost nothing for GSS to manufacture, it was all profit.

Ernest Cline

#12. I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

Michael Dirda

#13. Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols ... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

Russell Baker

#14. I didn't want people to say: Stelios does everything on the cheap at work, and in private he lives in the lap of luxury. That's not me. I don't need those status symbols. I don't need a private jet either when I can go everywhere with Easy.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#15. This is a book about getting naked - not physically, but spiritually. It's about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion - the Sunday-dress version people often call "organized religion." And it's about attending to the well-being of the soul clothed only in naked human skin.

Brian D. McLaren

#16. Looking back, all I can say is that the meeting with Bush was one of the most disgusting experiences in my life.

Cindy Sheehan

#17. I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

Gene Tierney

#18. Funny is funny is funny.

Bob Newhart

#19. As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.

John Shelby Spong

#20. We grew up with a camera in front of us.

Saoirse Ronan

#21. In 1759, the great lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson wrote: 'Advertisements are now so numerous they are very negligently perused.' An opinion many people express to this day, without realizing its centuries-old ancestry.

Winston Fletcher

#22. Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other.

Erin Beresini

#23. Louis XIV often appeared as a Roman emperor, adorned with other symbols...
The quality, number, value, and length of fabric, plumes, jewelry, and trains were all calibrated to status.

Jennifer Homans

#24. I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

Agnes Varda

#25. Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness ... And we assume that if only we could acquire some of those same symbols, we would be nuch happier.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi