I could have gone to Saturday’s HSAN Financial Empowerment Summit in Greensboro, NC but I just couldn’t make the time.  So I was ecstatic to discover these nuggets of wisdom from a regional news site:

As Lil’ Mo said, "Everybody wants to make it rain, but they never have something saved up for a rainy day."

Singer Anthony Hamilton admitted he’d just been to the mall and bought "sparkly Nikes" – but he pointed out, he got them on sale.

Wow, somebody ought to put out a book!

Take 2:
More from "Little Mo":
"Stop watching these videos and thinking that’s everybody’s lifestyle," said Little Mo." "It’s all smoke and mirrors, so, the best way I say is everybody has to have a good plan and a good foundation."

106 & Park’s Rocsi shared:
"Them shoes you see in the windows are not as important as that light bill you’ve got to pay next month," Rocsi, co-host of the Black Entertainment Television show "106 & Park," told the women in the audience.

Yet:
The stars also acknowledged that, like the audience, they like expensive things.  [Jim] Jones, a rapper and businessman, told the laughing crowd, "I buy the hottest cars that come out."

I’m actually slightly regretting not going.  I get such a strong sense of famous people boasting about their wealth and then talking down to the audience as if they were children that I just want to verify or move beyond that perception.