"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?"
- Ron Livingston
About this Quote
This quote by Ron Livingston highlights the shallow and materialistic nature of business culture. He recommends that in the business world, success is often determined by external elements such as the brand of t-shirt one uses, the prominent tennis club they belong to, and the costly watch they own. These product belongings are viewed as signs of status and influence, and are utilized to impress and get approval within the corporate hierarchy. In addition, Livingston mentions the significance of one's performance, as shown by their golf rating from the previous week. This more emphasizes the competitive and aggressive nature of the business world, where even recreation are utilized as a way of contrast and assessment. Overall, this quote clarifies the shallow and image-driven worths that dominate corporate culture.
This quote is written / told by Ron Livingston somewhere between June 5, 1968 and today. He was a famous Actor from USA.
The author also have 16 other quotes.
"I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing"
"In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to"
"Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis"
"Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport"
"There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim"
