Elementary school Quote by Jimmie Allen

I was a broke construction worker's kid.

— Carey Hart

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from…

— Wayne Dyer

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

— Lewis Black

I went dead broke - twice! - trying to get Gas Monkey up and going. And when I say broke, I mean sleeping on…

— Richard Rawlings

My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because,…

— Emo Philips

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

— Eddie Murphy

I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then…

— Rodney Dangerfield

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back…

— William Shatner

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. No health insurance, so if something happened…

— Lewis Black

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I was just a toddler when my dad died in a car crash. With my mum, Eunice, being a young widow with a large…

— Bob Mortimer

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch…

— Evan Williams