Dan Bilzerian Quotes

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

There are people with no high school education who are poor. but there are also university graduates on food bank lines. There are people who are poor because they have made bad choices, gotten addicted to drugs, burned bridges with friends and family — and then there are people who have never taken a drug in their lives, who have huge social networks, and who still can’t make ends meet.

A tale of two Americas is emerging: one weighed down by debt and facing de minimus economic growth and another brimming with opportunity and nimble to invest in the future

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have a buffer in one way or another. We have a savings account, or we have credit that we can go to. The underserved don't have that luxury.

I didn't have money growing up.

As our nation continues to slowly recover from the recession, it is clear some families are doing better than others.

My parents came from very humble families. My grandfather had a construction business coming from farmland, and my grandmother could never read or write. We were very spoiled. We had a nice house - and then, all of a sudden, we had nothing.

And when you're poor, you grow up fast.

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

The Caribbean is all Third World islands and it's very tough to raise the money for sports.

My dad was working in the street and my mum was working every day as a cleaner. My life was like that.

I grew up in a household where a missed day of work meant bills were not paid, I've lived through the stress that confronts many South Carolina families.

My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

I got married at 18 after dating my boyfriend for about a year. It was quick, I know. My husband joined the Army, and I thought I'd go to college. But we moved to Fort Hood for his job with no money, not even a car.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

I have come from a background where I haven't had lots of money to put me on the map. I've had to work very hard for what I've got.