Roy Orbison Quotes

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

I was able to save up a lot of money over the years of working hard so that I can buy myself cute shoes.

I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

Saving was slow and painful.

I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.