Quotes About Financial

I was a waitress for a couple of years when I was 18 and with my first pay packet, I paid for an hour's cleaning once a week.

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.

When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

As funny as we thought our script might have been, 'Super Troopers,' starring five nobodies, didn't fit the model of a good financial bet.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

The UFC has a great plan for us. I'm just happy I'm employed by them and can pay my house bills and everything.

If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.

During my last year of college, I maxed out what small available credit I had after declaring bankruptcy in my mid-20s to pay medical bills.

I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.

Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.

The bottom line is, I've got a wife and three kids. I've got bills I have to pay.

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

We talk about players going broke, but we don't talk about why that is happening.

I turned down a job when I was broke to the point that I was about to go into foreclosure on my house, but I didn't want to work on the job because of the content of the show.

If you only take money in the bank and never put money in the bank, you'll go broke.

I know what it's like to be in college and not have the budget to fully look the way I want to.

I would drastically revise much of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation, which I call the 'Bureaucrat Full Employment Act.'

I was young so when I had that job at Burger King, I was still in high school and I just needed to help out my mom. And help myself because I needed to buy some of my clothes. I did that for about three years and I had became a shift manager working at Burger King, doing my thing. I was young and excited to make my own money.

At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

Me personally, I don't ask too much, but I do ask Him to continue to bless me successfully, financially, and just to keep me humble.

Humans are hard-wired to be irrational when it comes to financial decisions. We must understand that so we don't become the sucker at the poker table.