Mike Todd Quotes

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.

Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.

That is sort of the backbone for 'Star-ving.' People just assumed that I am completely loaded. I do all right. I have to be careful.

If I'm going through life broke, I might as well live in the company of cheerful idiots like actors.

Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who's had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.

I'm not going to die broke, but I'm not rich.

I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.