Dan Aykroyd Quotes

I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

I've made a lot of money, and more importantly, I've saved a lot of money.

When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

A penny saved is a penny earned.