John Hodgman Quotes

It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

My family, ain't no more struggling to pay this bill, pay that bill.

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

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

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.

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

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

Being able to afford getting groceries - it frees people up to be creative. I think when you're spending 16 hours of every day to pay your rent and get food, I just don't see where there's time outside of that to be creative and make things.

The romantic idea of the penniless writer is false. It's terrible. I hated being in debt. I hated the anxiety of not knowing whether we could pay our rent that month. Thankfully, I had a wife who was very supportive and had faith and shared my madness.

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.

We need to put priority on addressing issues related to people's daily lives and their economic hardships.

I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

Nobody knows this, but the first actual purchase, after I signed my deal and called my bank account and heard how much money was in there - 'cause I was so broke and hungry - was Taco Bell.

We were in the position after our sextuplets were born that we could not pay our bills. We did the show to provide a better life for them.