John Hawley Quotes

In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.

My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 a week, took up nearly a third of his income.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

We cannot allow the heavy weight of the debt to bring us to our knees..

Because he was unorganized, the farmer has been made the financial shock absorber.... He fed the nation and he lost his home.

The economics of life is against the family.

While I was in university, my father became very ill and my father was unable to work. We needed to pay the bills, so in my 20s I became the sole income earner in my family.

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.

Better to be screwed physically than financially.

The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing.

We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

How many elderly people you see have to leave the house they've had their whole life because their fixed income and their property taxes keep rising every year and they can't afford to stay there. And nobody gives a crap about it, and they're booted out, they have to leave their homes.

It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.

I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!

The economy is so bad that bedbugs are now infesting sleeping bags and tents, because they can't afford to stay in hotels anymore.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

No one should ever have to choose between paying the rent and filling their prescriptions.