J. B. Pritzker Quotes

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

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

Everybody's family has problems.

I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

For a number of years, I've wondered if people like us are the forgotten. We're not the poor, and we're not the rich. We're not the very young or the aged. We're the average American family.

I, like many people, have had bumps in the road when it comes to family. Family dynamics are complicated and weigh heavily on me.

Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.

I never got a job from a poor person.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

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

I grew up in the middle class.

Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.

We didn't grow up superwealthy.

I'm fortunate enough that my dad was well-off, my family was well-off, so we're able to go to private schools and stuff like that.

I've struggled more with guys, depression drugs, family and career than I ever have with my illness. I'm not an innocent and I'm not a child.

A lot of athletes are first-generation money.

I know I'm not the only guy that's had problems in life. And it seems to me that a lot of athletes shy away from talking about things that may have happened to them or their families.

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.

When it comes to spending the rest of your life with someone, you should do it with a friend. It doesn't matter if that person is illiterate, educated or earns Rs 10 or Rs 10 crore. Eventually, these things don't matter.

Given this voice, I know it does sound like I've come from money. But my dad was Canadian and my mum Hungarian, so it's not like I have some high-society, upper-class English background.

It's okay to be annoyed with your significant other and feel overwhelmed at times.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.