Rick Harrison Quotes

I'm a poor person who has money.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

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

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

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

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

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

I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.

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

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

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.'

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

Money can't buy poverty.

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

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

I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.