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1. “Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can’t afford one.”

J.P. Morgan

Wealth, Luxury, Finance, Affordability, Status

2. “A poor relation – is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”

Charles Lamb

Family, Society, Relationships, Perception, Status

3. “A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.”

Charles Lamb

Family, Class, Society, Status, Struggle

4. “We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey – somehow as we are shy of poor relations.”

Charles Lamb

Society, Shame, Relations, Perception, Status

5. “Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.”

Plutarch

Marriage, Power, Relationships, Status, Balance

6. “Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”

Chanakya

Equality, Friendship, Balance, Status, Harmony

7. “A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.”

Chanakya

Marriage, Wisdom, Respect, Status, Choice

8. “The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.”

Stendhal

Society, Luxury, Desire, Possession, Status

9. “Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.”

Seneca

Pride, Heritage, Humility, Perspective, Status

10. “True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.”

Seneca

Praise, Honesty, Status, Recognition, Integrity

11. “People creating wealth will always be attacked by people playing status games.”

Naval Ravikant

Wealth, Status, Success, Social Dynamics, Mindset

12. “Status is your ranking in the social hierarchy.”

Naval Ravikant

Status, Society, Hierarchy, Social Life, Influence

13. “Birth is nothing where virtue is not.”

Moliere

Virtue, Character, Morality, Honor, Status

14. “Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion – painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Portland, Lifestyle, Passion, Status, Creativity

15. “Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.”

Francis Bacon

Jealousy, Nobility, Social Change, Perception, Status

16. “Finally, when he crowns it off by becoming a senator, then he becomes a slave in fine company, then he experiences the poshest and most prestigious form of enslavement.”

Epictetus

Ambition, Status, Enslavement, Prestige, Perspective

17. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.”

Will Rogers

Money, Society, Consumerism, Status, Finance

18. “You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.”

George Saunders

Parenting, Materialism, Social Pressures, Identity, Status

19. “What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!”

Alexander Pope

Poetry, Status, Wit, Social Commentary, Literary Criticism

20. “Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.”

Edmund Burke

Title, Heritage, Honor, Nobility, Status

21. “To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.”

Adam Grant

Power, Status, Social Hierarchy, Leadership, Perception

22. “It’s always a mistake to be too focused on prestige and status…I would always be long substance, short status.”

Peter Thiel

Prestige, Substance, Business Philosophy, Status, Values

23. “A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Success, Irony, Idleness, Status, Critique

24. “People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.”

Aldous Huxley

Travel, Art, Status, Motivation, Culture, Social Conformity

25. “Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Caesar.”

Herman Melville

Friendship And Dining, Social Power, Life Experiences, Leadership, Human Relations, Status

26. “Money is the medium by which earthly success is measured.”

George S. Clason

Money, Success Measurement, Wealth, Prosperity, Achievement, Status

27. “Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.”

Elbert Hubbard

Respectability Society, Civilization, Appearance, Status, Image

28. “If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.”

Jane Austen

Wealth Value, Money Judgment, Social Class, Wealth, Status, Opinion

29. “The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.”

Peter Drucker

Work, Society, History, Status, Change

30. “No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.”

Peter Drucker

Society, Leadership, Status, Function, Power, Social Responsibility

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