Eileen Ford Quotes

I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

When you have no money, you need invention.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren't interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

I put myself through college playing pool.

I was 20 years old. My entire possessions consisted of $5 and a sewing machine.

It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.

I couldn't be working in a bank and launch a clothing line. It's only because cinema gave me a lot of access that I have been able to launch a clothing line.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

I was selling stuff probably since I could remember, like 6 or 7 years old. I was always out there helping my mom and dad sell watches, glasses, CDs, DVDs, stuff like that. Whatever we could put our hands on. I did it until I was around 17. But I was just doing it because I had to. There was no other option.

My studio was lo-fi by necessity; I was fourteen with no reliable income.

Airbnb was born out of necessarity. Our rent went up. It was born out of a problem.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

You know, when you need drugs and you don't have a lot of money, what you'll do is you'll hang out with people who will give you drugs. Right?

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

Never let money get in the way of an idea

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.

Beggars can't be choosers. We don't have all the money in the world. So anyone who wants to be in the band and be broke - that's their own death wish.

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.