Quotes About Poverty

So what can poor parents tell their child about money? They simply say, "Stay in school and study hard." The child may graduate with excellent grades, but with a poor person's financial programming and mindset.

The problem was that the rich man was not rich yet, and the poor man was not yet poor.

The reason the middle class is so heavily taxed is because of the Robin Hood ideal. The reality is that the rich are not taxed. It's the middle class, especially the educated upper-income middle class, who pays for the poor.

the biggest losers are the poor and middle class, the people who work for money and save money.

The old-money people, the long-term rich, build their asset column first. Then the income generated from the asset column buys their luxuries. The poor and middle class buy luxuries with their own sweat, blood, and children's inheritance.

Satu-satunya aset paling kuat yang kita miliki adalah pikoran kita. Jika dilatih dengan baik, pikiran bisa menciptakan kekayaan yang luar biasa dalam waktu yang kelihatannya singkat. Pikiran yang tidak terlatih juga bisa menciptakan kemiskinan yang ekstrem, yang bisa mengahncurkan keluarga selama bergenerasi-generasi.

It is this Robin Hood fantasy, or taking from the rich to give to the poor, that has caused the most pain for the poor and the middle class.

Money and success make you arrogant and stupid. Now with some poverty and humility behind you, you can become a student again.

It is trained well, it can create enormous wealth seemingly instantaneously. An untrained mind can also create extreme poverty that can crush a family for generations.

The reality is that the rich are not taxed. It's the middle class, especially the educated upper-income middle class, who pays for the poor.

Existe una diferencia entre ser pobre y estar en bancarrota. La bancarrota es temporal, la pobreza, eterna.

This is the cash-flow pattern of a poor person: This is the cash-flow pattern of a person in the middle class:

So that's why the 10 cents an hour," I said, smiling. "It's a part of the lesson." "That's right," smiled rich dad. "You see, your dad went to school and got an excellent education, so he could get a high-paying job. But he still has money problems because he never learned anything about money

The more people you're indebted to, the poorer you are

Existe una gran diferencia entre ser pobre y estar en bancarrota. La bancarrota es temporal, la pobreza, eterna.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. It's self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keep people trapped.

Velvet carpet, sighed Anne luxuriously, and silk curtains! I've dreamed of such things, Diana. But do you know I don't believe I feel very comfortable with them after all. There are so many things in this room and all so splendid that there is no scope for imagination. That is one consolation when you are poor--there are so many more things you can imagine about.

What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne's history and divine the truth.

Sloth is the natural result of unrewarded hard work among the poor, reason enough for them to be prickly.

When folks get rich all of a sudden it makes them feel sort of guilty to be around folks who've stayed poor.

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

she quickly hired a housekeeper and a kitchen staff for the White House and then threw herself into what mattered far more to her—civil rights, women's equality, poverty, housing, employment, and the war. She was the busiest, most public, most productive First Lady in history, and complaints about dinner just didn't register. But

Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.