Rem Koolhaas Quotes

I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

We had poverty in our house. Even on the council estate I knew I was one of the poorer kids. I used to go round my friends houses on a Sunday to get their Sunday dinner because my mum couldn't cook either so I used to love going round my mates and say: 'Can you ask your Mum if I can come in for Sunday dinner?'

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

Let's say I go completely broke, I'm about to star in the next '30 for 30: Broke.'

When I booked 'This Is Us,' I had 81 cents in my bank account.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

The Britons bankrupted me. I came to their country with £10 in my pocket and they gave me £1 back. But in between I had one hell of a ride.

I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

I just want to note that 43 million young people in debt is enough to win a three-way Presidential race.

And one game, as we know, can cost you a lot.

The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.