Jim Jefferies Quotes

Very few people can afford to be poor.

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

There's no future in being poor.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

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

Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, 'No, this has to stop.'

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.

I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.