Theo Paphitis Quotes

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I didn't have money growing up.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.