Gerry Harvey Quotes

I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding.

I am scared of running out of money.

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.

There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

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

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

I had held titles in all the major U.K. organisations, but we were struggling to make ends meet. There were times you don't have a fight lined up, and the bills are stacking up.

Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over. That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn't have money to pay my rent.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

I've pretty much always lived paycheck to paycheck. I never considered it struggling, but it has always been a high-wire act.

I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.

When you are continuing to be in debt or are going deeper into it, every time a creditor calls, it rubs your face not only in how vulnerable you are, but that people are out to get something from you that you don't have to give.

That used to be one of my greatest fears growing up: my mom would get sick and then she wouldn't be able to go to work and then there is no food or money for rent.