Financial Stress Quotes

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

When you’re highly leveraged, everything is exaggerated. Good times are better—but bad times are much worse.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.

Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.

Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money

When I started going to business school, I started getting calls from my peers asking for my help. I thought, 'Well, there are a lot of people like me who make a bunch of money and just get so scared of it and don't know what to do with it.' I just didn't want to be 60 years old and broke.

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Although the Fed has subjected banks’ portfolios to stress tests to measure the effect of rising interest rates and investment losses, the results might not have shown the whole picture: U.S. banks, particularly small and medium-sized ones, may not have enough capital to maintain solvency and liquidity should their risky loans and investments fail in large numbers. The same is true of the stress tests that the ECB has performed in Europe,

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

I'm the king of debt.

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

There is nothing wrong with having nice things, but when you are trying to buy nice things to be happy, you are going to hurt. It's not going to work.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

I really don't care if anyone thinks I'm special or not, I just want to be able to live my life without thinking about money all the time, or where I'm going to get it.