Zong Qinghou Quotes

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

Alarm in hard times makes one live; indulgence in comfort makes one die.

I actually had to start from nothing and build my own way out of it by making financial goals... It's been an interesting journey but one I can relate to in terms of struggling.

Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.

Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you're going to pay your next bill. It's more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.

I don't have any contracts, so I don't have to split any money up. That was my main thing - just making sure I'm taking care of myself and taking care of Lil B. Just learning to survive, for myself and as a human in America.

I was on subsidized housing for many years before my financial situation changed. I quickly found myself in a new economic structure and, frankly, knew little about how to handle my money.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund.

No, I'm not wealthy.

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.