As a young woman, Orman worked for 7 years as a short-order cook/waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, California.
Listed in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World" (Artists & Entertainers section) with a tribute written Donny Deutsch (12 May 2008 issue).
Had emergency appendectomy surgery on June 5, 2010 in Chicago.
Holds a degree in social work from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The world does not need another credit card. The world needs another vehicle to get people to pay in cash. People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.
For seven years I was a waitress making $400 a month. Don't think that I don't remember what it's like not to have a pot to pee in. Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?