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I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I was raised not to talk about money. It was considered impolite.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.