Joseph Schumpeter Quotes

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

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

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

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

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.'

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

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

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having 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.

I didn't have money growing up.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

I've been poor most of my life.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

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

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

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.