Jason Calacanis Quotes

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

I've tasted the dirt side. I've tasted being broke. I've been in the dumps, I've lived in motels as a kid. I want a different opportunity for my children. I never want them to see those things.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

I was a poor kid. I came from nothing. We didn't have any money; a lot of times we didn't have any food, and now, all of a sudden, I'm a superhero in a Marvel movie? Talk about the American dream, man - I'm living it.

When Kogi started, I was dead broke, selling tacos on the street just to survive.

Only people who can't draw money need belts.

I broke the cycle of poverty thanks to education.

Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.

My family were very poor. We never owned a house, in fact, we were lucky if we could afford the rent. So when I bought my first home, it was a very emotional time for me.

My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak.

To raise a son by yourself and not having a car or not having the right income to make sure he can do all the things that he wants to do, but make him feel comfortable, is amazing.

I don't want to tell sad stories about myself. We may not have had a lot to spend when I grew up, but my childhood was good. The public likes to hear a dramatic story. They want a star to rise, have a meltdown and then return to greatness. Very American.

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

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.