Matt Groening Quotes

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

I'm not being arrogant or blase, but I got a bigger buzz sitting opposite Jean-Bernard Delmas over lunch at Chateau Haut-Brion than I did from interviewing Elton John, Liza Minelli or Whitney Houston.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Divas need their furs!

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

Language does not make one an elite.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. We search out exclusivity. He created the world of fashion at Versailles.

I learned early that class is universally admired.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

I don't go hunting with kings and princes.

Fashion Week is a great opportunity to make unimportant people feel like they own the world.

A Tennessee Squire is an elite group of people.

I think exclusivity is important in life. When you look at a hot pair of Jordans, not everybody got them - it's a limited run. You look at guitars. When Gibson made the robot guitar, it was a limited run.

Being a billionaire is sort of passe.

Once fraternities became tied to power and leadership, the powerful and would-be-leaders wanted to join.

Rich clubs, where money doesn't matter... such clubs don't interest me.

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses.

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.