Howard Schultz Quotes

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

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.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of the working poor.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

I come from a poor family.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.