However, once an upliner, always an upliner. No matter how outstanding the downliner may be, she must still be respectful to the person who sponsored her in the first place. "This is a case of teaching by example--if you diss your upliner, your downliner will see this, and isn't it always 'monkey see, monkey do'?
不過，「一日為上線，終身為上線」，不管下線多麼飛黃騰達，對於當初引進門的上線，還是要恭恭謹謹。