Cherie Lunghi Quotes

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.

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.

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

I just save my money, man. I don't even try to enjoy it like these other rappers; they having fun and they lit, but they gon' be broke later on. I be savin', I be chillin'. It feels good to know I got it, but it feel better to know I'ma keep it too.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

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'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to live with whatever I can afford and don't try to put myself in an awkward position. I've done that before.

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.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.

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

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

I'm not an extravagant person. You don't get a chance to spend money when you're working on a TV show.

I try to be prudent with everything and fortunately I have enough to support me in a nice middle-class lifestyle, while I try to do other things.

You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.

I was able to save up a lot of money over the years of working hard so that I can buy myself cute shoes.

It pays to be a fee fiend.