Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

Seneca the Younger

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• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fire

• I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • People
  • Money
  • Doubt

• When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Money
  • Done
  • Freedom

• I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Money
  • Fun
  • College

• Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• Money often costs too much.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Too Much
  • Often

• If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • You
  • Count

• Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Work
  • Money
  • Trump

• My name can raise money on a small-budget film.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Money
  • Small
  • Film

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Principles

• I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Money
  • Care
  • Fame

• Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Coffee

• Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Kids

• Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Money
  • Nothing
  • Glory

• I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Good
  • Money

• the 1960's began with a feeling of tremendous liberation, because I at last had space and money and time to work on a much bigger scale.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• Work-family conflicts-the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child-would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.

  

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; ... I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. ... Blepyrus: But who will till the soil? Praxagora: The slaves. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Money

• Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World
  • Money
  • Future

• I made 'Siam Sunset.' In Australia, it was pretty much universally hated, but I did notice that almost any American who saw it loved that film, so in 2001 I made a film in America called 'Swimfan,' and they released like a big studio movie, and it made money.

  

  John Polson
  • Money
  • American
  • America

• It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Alone
  • Fall

• Money has never yet made anyone rich.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Money
  • Rich