Rex Stout Quotes

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

Being broke is against my religion.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

My parents didn't have any money.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

I've been poor most of my life.

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.