George Foreman Quotes

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

Money can't buy poverty.

I grew up poor.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

I know of only three ways of living in society: one must be a beggar, a thief, or a wage earner.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.