David Tang Quotes

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

I had a year, where... I was secretly, 100 percent, dead broke.

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver.

I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

I went dead broke - twice! - trying to get Gas Monkey up and going. And when I say broke, I mean sleeping on my sister's couch and can't pay-the-rent type broke.

I would still be at Milan if it weren't for their financial problems.

You are already broke and don't even know it.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

I want the last cheque I write to bounce.

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

We all know of families who have obligated themselves for more than they could pay. There is a world of heartache behind such cases.

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

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.

The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.

We have hardly enough money to last till the end of March.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

I don't think there is anything unusual about a business losing money in certain years.

We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

The people who pawn stuff never want to be on the show. And the reason behind that, I find out, is when people are pawning something, it's - they're getting a loan. They have to admit they're broke. For some reason or the other, something has happened, or they're financially irresponsible.