Patrick Beverley Quotes

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.

I think the American Dream is kind of a myth, especially for millennials.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

I'm not a trust-fund type.

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

Both my mother and father worked for everything that they had.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.

I grew up on a council estate in south London; my dad was a bus driver and my mum sewed clothes to bring in extra money. My parents worked hard and were able to save up and buy a home for our family.

Just because I'm a lot wealthier now doesn't mean I want my kids to grow up differently to how I did.

I came from the most humble side of society, and I know what it's like to be poor, really poor, and I was brought up in the '60s and '70s very poor, and I'm very happy flying the flag for the working man.

Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.

My dad's side of the family was very poor while growing up, but my dadi raised three kids, got my dad through medical school, sent my uncle to America where he wanted to work and helped my aunt become an accountant, because that's what she wanted to do.

As a young girl growing up in poverty, I know firsthand how much a paycheck from a summer job can make a difference.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

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.

My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

I work hard and I don't come from a rich family.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.