Adam Smith Quotes

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.'

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.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

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?'

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

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

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

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'.

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

Truman didn't have enough money to make a radio speech.

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.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

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

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'