Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

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

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families.

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

Money is a never-ending problem.

I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

This is a wonderful year for raw truth. We don't have any money.

nothing more afflicts the mind of man than Poverty

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.

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

When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's.

When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.

Money is always a pressure.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.