“All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.” WantMayGrowsFashionDesignPressureSellsLifestyleLuxuryBrandsTicketsNicheAffordableUnder PressureRolls RoyceCartier Author:Peter York
“Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.” UseYellowSheetsTypewritersRolls Royce Author:John O'Hara
“You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.” KnowsCountrySometimesHelpingHandsSeemsEarthCreativeCarInternetIntellectualScientistPropertyKillingNuclearStationsAtomsEnginesElsewhereSplitsFinestImaginativeExploitsJetKoreanCartsNuclear PowerIntellectual PropertyRolls RoyceGumptionJet Engines Author:Boris Johnson
“Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.” WritingInstrumentsMusicalComposerOrchestraSymphonyMusical InstrumentsRolls RoyceSymphony Orchestras Author:David Del Tredici
“The Rich arrived in pairs And also in Rolls Royces; They talked of their affairs In loud and strident voices... The Poor arrived in Fords, Whose features they resembled; They laughed to see so many Lords And Ladies all assembled. The People in Between Looked underdone and harassed, And our of place and mean, And Horribly embarrassed.” PeopleMeanVoiceWealthPoorLordRichAffairLoudFeaturesPairsLaughedEmbarrassedRolls RoyceLords And Ladies Book:Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc Source: Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc