Anne Wojcicki Quotes

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

I'm known for value for money. I was brought up to be frugal, and it's definitely a factor in my success. I was born in the Fifties, which was a frugal era, and my family had to be very careful with money out of necessity.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

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

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

I grew up very poor, so I learned how to stretch a dollar. It's nice to combine high-end with low-end or whatever-end you want.

I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.

When I was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, I would overdraft my bank account and not have enough money to buy groceries. But I also discovered how to cook with very limited resources.

Consumers, when they've only got a couple of quid left in their pockets, are choosy about how they want to spend it.

I'm fabulous on a budget.

I was raised by my Depression-era grandma who taught me to use what you've got: Waste not, want not!

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.