financial struggles quotes

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn’t have that kinda money to put out.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

There was a point where I really felt I had ‚penniless divorcee lone parent‘ tattooed on my head.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.