Shania Twain Quotes

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

There's no future in being poor.

I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.

If achieving the Hong Kong dream becomes a vanishing hope, then our society will suffer. What would the Hong Kong dream be? It's no different from the American dream, whereby an everyday man on the street who works hard would be able to make good savings and use those savings as equity for their future small business.

I wish our wallet could match our warmth.

There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

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

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Having grown up a trailer park kid on welfare and food stamps, becoming jaded is impossible, although now I make a good living, which I'm not ashamed of; when you've been poor, it never leaves you.

You are not created for poverty.

Before 'Power,' I got down to $86 in my bank account. I don't know if I feel successful as much as I feel relieved because for the first time in my life I'm not scared about how I'm going to pay my rent, and I can start to put money away.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

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

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

I could pull my living in and live OK, but I don't want to live OK. I'm very happy to live in my penthouse, very happy I can pick up a check, very happy to have a great life and be able to spread my wealth a little bit.