Charles Schwab Quotes

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

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

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I didn't have money growing up.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

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.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

I grew up poor.