Status Quotes

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Money is power.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

I am Vice President. I am nothing but I may be everything.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

There are two things that are fundamental—money and power, and I don’t care much about money

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

It's not what you are in Hollywood - it's what people think you are.

Are these men, women, and children slaves? Are they free? Is their condition that of men, women, and children, or of property, or is it a mixed relation? What their status was under the constitution and laws, we all know. What has been the effect of a rebellion and a state of war upon that status? When I adopted the theory of treating the able-bodied negro fit to work in the trenches as property liable to be used in aid of rebellion, and so contraband of war, that condition of things was in-so-far met, as I then and still believe, on a legal and constitutional basis. But now a new series of questions arise. Passing by women, the children, certainly, cannot be treated on that basis; if property, they must be considered the incumbrance rather than the auxiliary of an army, and, of course, in no possible legal relation could be treated as contraband. Are they property? If they were so, they have been left by their masters and owners, deserted, thrown away, abandoned, like the wrecked vessel upon the ocean. Their former possessors and owners have causelessly, traitorously, rebelliously, and, to carry out the figure, practically abandoned them to be swallowed up by the winter storm of starvation. If property, do they not become the property of salvors? But we, their salvors, do not need and will not hold such property, and will assume no such ownership: has not, therefore, all proprietary relation ceased? Have they not become, thereupon, men, women, and children?

I don't have rights. Let's put it this way: in athletics, I don't have rights.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

The great are not famous, and the famous are not great

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse.

My parents are retired, basically.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

I'm an educated individual.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.