Quotes About Financial

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

I didn't think that it's something that would happen. I didn't think I would be in the position, emotionally or financially, to be able to do that. But I've been lucky [to have big family].

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success.

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.

The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

I've been sort of crabby lately. It's that time of the month again–the rent's due.

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

Be as rich as to afford a modest, care-free existence.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you'll have financial freedom

To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.