In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I’m broke as hell and one day I won’t be.

We verified this line against its primary source: Dwayne Johnson posted it in the first person from his own verified X account (@TheRock, [add post date]), recounting the moment in 1995 when — newly cut from the Canadian Football League — he returned home with seven dollars to his name. The quotation here matches his post; slightly reworded versions circulate on secondary sites, but we cite the form as Johnson wrote it. The underlying episode is independently well attested: it is the origin of the name of his production company, Seven Bucks Productions, and is dramatized in his autobiographical series Young Rock (NBC, 2021–2023). Those retellings corroborate the story but are not the basis for the wording, which rests on Johnson's own published post. We found no competing author and no earlier instance of the line by anyone else. On the strength of a first-person primary source in the author's own words, we are marking this quotation as verified.