187 Quotes About Status

In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more likely to predict their likelihood of a heart attack than obesity, smoking or high blood pressure.

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.

It is as simple as that. Birds fly because they have wings and so when you can’t grow the wings, you can’t be called a bird. Leaders make impacts because they create new ideas and so if you can’t think of any new innovative ideas, you can’t be a leader.

If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs.

...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

If someone made a lot of money with minimal effort, it probably means they betrayed either themselves or others.