Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

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

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

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

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

nothing more afflicts the mind of man than Poverty

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

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

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

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

I'm a poor person who has money.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I've worked with and talked to poor people my entire life, being in the pawn shop business.

I didn't have money growing up.

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.