Elite Membership Quotes

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?

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.

It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.

Oh, I live in London. So, whether I like it or not, I am a member of the metropolitan elite. If I were anywhere else in the country, I'd hate me.

… an army of Gatsbys wanting not to overturn the social order but only to belong to the upper crust.

No one ever resigns from the Council on Foreign Relations. They die.

It's unbelievable. I'm still trying to grasp the whole idea that I am an actually a Stanford Cardinal now. I'm actually representing an alumni that's network is around the world, and the people there are unbelievable.

Getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences is the ultimate peer recognition.

Giving money doesn't make you an insider. If that's considered being an insider, I guess Donald Trump is an insider. That doesn't make sense.

Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.

For the past, I guess, three years or so when I joined Bullet Club and as a member of The Elite, I was honestly kind of in the shadow of all of my friends.

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.