Jim Bakker Quotes

Very few people can afford to be poor.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

I am still writing my own checks for more or less substantial amounts every week in order to squeeze by the weekend.

Startups should be - if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero. you're not making any money; you're not losing any money.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

As a mother, I - like everyone else - have to fill my gas tank in my car. I have to feed my family. I have to be able to make sure that I can keep a roof over their heads and, with things escalating the way they are, it's very difficult. People are losing their homes.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?'

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

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'.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

Get big or get out!

Everyone is trying to make ends meet, and even if you aren't, no one wants to get ripped off.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

I make all that money and it ain't enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.

I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92.

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.