Gina Rinehart Quotes

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

My parents didn't have any money.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

There's only so much that you can tighten your belt before you squeeze yourself to death.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing.

We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

Being broke is against my religion.

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

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

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.'

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'