#prestige

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige. ↗

— George Murray

#big #big deal #books #deal #even

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#fine #get #however #love #money

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#club #deal #gained #great #great deal

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#grammy #importance #know #links #people

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#distance #prestige #without #work

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #mystery #prestige

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#cannot #country #despite #destroyed #fate

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#money #prestige #shadow

That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#begun #could #country #elected #faith

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#concerned #executives #far #four #making