John Higgins Quotes

You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

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.'

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

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

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

Money can't buy poverty.

'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

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

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

The economy will bump along, with most of us struggling to make ends meet, while the same people who nearly wrecked the economy altogether will be making more money than they can count.

Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I don't have as much money as Rahm Emanuel.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.

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.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

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.

Income inequity has to be addressed.