Jim Rogers Quotes

Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.

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

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

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.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

I come from a poor family.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

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

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

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

I'd rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.

I've been poor most of my life.

When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re even happy, because at least you’ve got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.