Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

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.'

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Money can't buy poverty.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.