Financial Adversity Quotes

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

I'm poor, not homeless.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

Being broke is against my religion.

I was born and raised during Depression Years when we were on County relief and we all went out and we hustled. we worked. I worked in a restaurant, I washed dishes.

When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re even happy, because at least you’ve got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

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

Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.