Neil Sedaka Quotes

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

Poor people don’t employ people; only rich people do.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

I have found out in later years we [his family] were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

I think earlier I struggled in a rickshaw and now I am struggling in a Bentley.

When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you're talking about addressing the foundation of what's going on with our people when we don't have any financial power. Our basic needs aren't being met in a lot of cases, so there's no way we're going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.

It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.

It is very easy for middle-class people who come from moneyed backgrounds not to understand what it's like for people when they first go down to the dole office because they've lost their jobs.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.