Robert Orben Quotes

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

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

It's a little hard to go out there and spend your money on a home, car, or goods and services if your wages are being garnished to make debt collectors rich.

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.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

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?'

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.

My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.

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

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.'

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

Money is a never-ending problem.

The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.

We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver.

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

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'.

You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.