Best 182 quotes in «currency quotes» category

The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

There are two types of depreciation. There is one where you're manipulating currencies. And that's not what Japan is doing.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag, and that flag is the American flag.

There is no point in saving the currency if we lose the country that goes with it.

The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union--complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union. Like the European Union, a North American Union would represent another step toward the abolition of national sovereignty altogether.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.

The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.

We have made it possible, without gold and without foreign exchange, to maintain the value of the German mark.  Behind the German mark stands the German capacity for work, while some foreign countries, suffocated by gold, have been compelled to devalue their currencies.

We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.

We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

We're going to stand up to China, we're going to stop their currency manipulation and product dumping, which is killing us.

Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency.

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value.

When depreciated, mutilated, or debased coinage (or currency) is in concurrent circulation with money of high value in terms of precious metals, the good money automatically disappears.

We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing - is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre!

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s'two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.

Albert had created a currency based on gold bullets and McDonald’s game pieces. He’d wanted to call the currency something else, but no one remembered what. So, ’Bertos they were, a play on “Albert,” coined by Howard, of course, who had also come up with “the FAYZ” to describe their weird little world. Sam had thought Albert was nuts with his obsession with creating money. But the evidence was in: Albert’s system was producing just enough food for kids to survive. And a lot more kids were working. Far fewer were just hanging out. It was no longer impossible to get kids to go into the fields and do the backbreaking work of picking crops. They worked for ’Bertos and spent ’Bertos, and for now at least starvation was just a bad memory.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

You can only make money if you buy a product, whatever it is - maybe a currency, maybe wheat and maybe something else - at a relatively low price and sell it at a higher price than you buy it at. There's no other way to make money.

With China, their primary weapon in China is what they've done with the devaluation of their currency.

Your most valuable currency is what comes most naturally to you. Cash in!

And yet all the gold is in England, it is dug up from Portuguese and Spanish mines, but it flows by some occult power of attraction to the Tower of London.” “Flows,” Caroline repeated. “Flows, like a current.” Sophie nodded. “And the English have grown so used to this that they use ‘currency’ as a synonym for money, as if no distinction need be observed between them.

Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.

As a creative your ideas are your strongest form of currency.

Either cry for exchanging new currency notes for couple of days or crib for corruption for ages and generations with old one. Choice is yours.

Chase after money and the stuggering race will never end; but reach out for successful ideas and the sources of money will chase after you to fill your pockets.

Civil war tends to give a helping hand to the velocity of currency, Ukraine can attest to that. However, it is quite an unpleasant way to find the intrinsic value of worthlessness.

Communication is the mortar that holds humanity together; it’s the very currency of our society.

Beauty in its best form is kindness, the most valuable currency in the world.

Blood is the currency of life, to spill blood is to create debt. Water is the lifeblood of the Earth. To poison the water is to create an unpayable debt resulting in the loss of life of all living things,

Caveman used to be a hunter-gatherer...Modern man hunts for jobs(if he wants to be an employee) and for heads (if he is an employer), and later gathers paper in the form of currency notes, contracts, policies or shares.

Employment bargains your life and time for a piece of currency

Greatness can only be procured with the currency of time and discipline

For you to be able to be fruitful, to multiply and saturate the earth with your products, you have to first know how to properly use the currency of time.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed with the currency time

Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.

I lived on a #Parkavenue for 8 years…it didn't even cost me $23.8million; determining the value of my residence locations, didn't come to me through the face value of a currency denomination, but the credence I gave to my wealthy 'place'ment by real estate connotations.

If there is anything you need in life that you haven’t gotten, it is because you are yet to pay for it via the currency of time.

I left the bank because they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems. So I went to the store, but they didn’t accept my currency of words. So I boxed all my stories and took them to charity. But they refused my donation and asked me to give blood instead. I opened the notebooks and made them look, 'What do you think I wrote these in?

Homeland security requires a secure homeland currency.

If tenderness is any sort of currency maybe I don't want what it can buy.

If you will exchange your life for greatness, if you will use the currency of time to buy greatness; then greatness will deliver to you every other thing you need in life.

Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads is a bit tired we ends up earning the money faster'n we can make it, which leads to a bit of what I can only call a conundrum—" "You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it?" said Moist, still pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it. "That's right, sir," said Shady. "And down that road madness lies." "It's a very short road," said Moist, nodding.