Chuck Zito Quotes

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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 don't make any money.

My parents didn't have any money.

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

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

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

I pay our nanny more than I'm earning.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

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

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

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

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

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

My parents got married when they were 16, and they never had any money.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

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

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.