My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.
I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
I just love cars; I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get.
I came from a middle class family hence I had to struggle hard for success.
You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.
I come from a very working-class background.
I am certain that my family - my grandmother, mother and myself - had a credit score of zero when we arrived in 1976. There were no credit cards in the Soviet Union, and we didn't have any money.
I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.
I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!
I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.
I think the country will get behind someone who comes from a working-class background, who truly epitomizes the American Dream.
We didn't grow up rich people.
If I was born into a household with anxiety about money, I wouldn't have had as much freedom to be in my own world. So it's impossible for me to divorce the privilege of my childhood from the other things.
My kids never had the advantage I had: I was born poor.
My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
I'm a working-class person, working with class.
I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.
I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.
We didn't grow up superwealthy.
My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.
I don't come from a lot of money.
I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich people don't have because poor people fundamentally don't value money that much because they're used to not having it.
