Think & Achieve by Elijah Chai - HTML preview

STATUS

Quotes

1

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

— Robert Frost

2

All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.

— Lord Mancroft

3

Soldiers win battles and generals get the credit.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

4

Many of the quests for status symbols—the hot automobile, the best table in a restaurant or a private chat with the boss—are shadowy reprises of infant anxieties. . . . The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.

— Willard Gaylin

5

A status symbol is anything you can’t afford, but did.

— Harold Coffin

6

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself.

— Bernhard Wicki

7

Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.

— Ralph Butler

Sayings

1

It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.

2

If they don’t want to play with you, then you don’t want to play with them.

3

Remember where you came from.

4

The best way to judge a teacher is to ask who his instructors were and who his students are.

5

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

— Italian saying

Jokes

1

Observing a light across the water, the captain had his signalman instruct the other vessel to change her course ten degrees south.

The response was prompt: “Change your course ten degrees north.”

“I am a captain,” he responded testily. “Change your course ten degrees south.”

The reply: “I’m a seaman first class—change your course north.”

The captain was furious. “Change your course now. I’m on a battleship.”

“Change your course ten degrees north, sir—I’m a lighthouse.”

2

First employee: “So, is your job secure?”

Second employee: “Oh, yes. It’s me they can do without.”

3

The nouveau riche real estate developer splurged on a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and couldn’t wait to show it off. So after a meeting with the bank, he offered one of the senior bank officers a ride home. “Whaddaya think?” he couldn’t resist asking his passenger after a mile or two. Pretty snappy, eh? I bet you’ve never ridden in one of these before.”

“Actually I have,” replied the banker graciously, “but this is my first time in the front seat.”