Sandra Lerner Quotes

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

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

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.

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

I've been very sensible with the money I made, and I did make good money.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

I'm completely irresponsible, I'm afraid. I'm ignorant about money as a commodity - I have never really understood it.

I'm serious about it, and I want to spend my money wise. I'm not going to throw away any money.

Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

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 spend my money like I don't have anything.