Harrison Ford Quotes

Money is only important when you don't have any.

I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood - well, not rough, but it certainly wasn't upper class or anything. But I remember hearing things like, 'The little man just can't get ahead.' And if you start to believe that, then you know what? You don't get ahead.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

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

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

There's no future in being poor.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

I'm not rich.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.