Klaus Schulze Quotes

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Money is a never-ending problem.

Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgages, to me having to sell my properties, me being in and out of court trying to modify my child support. It's a lot to deal with at one time.

Six months after we started, in 1964, there was a day when we sold only seven sandwiches. If we'd taken all the money from the register, we couldn't have paid an employee, much less the food or the rent or all that. It could have been a turning point. We could have given up.

I started FUBU in 1989 but ran out of money three times and closed it down.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

We have hardly enough money to last till the end of March.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.

Let's say I go completely broke, I'm about to star in the next '30 for 30: Broke.'

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

To a great extent, it is our money that is funding some of the problems with which we must cope.

We weren't making money in the Yardbirds.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

I lost a lot of money with sponsors.