Sentence examples for started off poor from inspiring English sources

Mr. Della Valle's family started off poor.

"You understand this?" Savage was born Michael Alan Weiner, in 1942, the son of Jewish immigrants, and, like many successful men who started off poor, he loves to talk about the bad old days.

Perhaps the most significant turning point in his life came when he won a scholarship to Manchester grammar school, much to the delight of his grandfather, who wrote him a letter telling him to forget neither the fact that he had started off poor, nor his old grandad.

And if you start off poor in Denmark or Britain, for example, you're much more likely to reach the top fifth in income than if you try to make the same climb in the United States.

The Asian tigers may be growing much faster than the European economies, but then they started off far poorer.

Nor is it simply that the nation he forged, Singapore, started off as a poor colony of Britain and ended up substantially wealthier per capita, becoming a model variously studied by Chinese Communists and Western capitalists.

He started off with unusually poor numbers and little bipartisan support and saw his numbers only drop from there.

If those born to rule feel themselves to be born cleverer and richer than average, then those at the bottom are not just materially poorer but start off with poor genetic material.

Rather, they seemed to be part of a general trend, for all schools, whereby those starting off with poor results in 2012-13 closed the gap on those that had been formerly been ahead.

Some patients may be adherent in an "off-and-on" pattern, while others may start off with poor adherence and then become more adherent.

"He (Pope Francis) started off right away, wanting a poor Church, a simple Church, back to gospel basics.