Best 182 quotes in «currency quotes» category

Most governments, not all of them, but most, certainly don't want their citizens using gold. They want them in the currency that they are creating. When they are debasing money, or printing money, they are spending it and they want it to have as much value as possible when they originally spend it. Of course once they spend it, it will lose value for them and everyone else that holds it. But they need demand for their currency. They need as many people as possible holding it and transacting it. The more people that use gold, the harder it makes it.

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.

Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

Secrets are the currency of intimacy

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

Since 2007, we've been giving one dollar, one euro - whatever the local currency - of every ticket sold to Partners In Health and Kanpe. I think if you have a working band, that's about the easiest thing you can do - you just set it up and let it work!

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.

The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

The Chinese are the greatest that ever came about, they are the greatest currency manipulators ever.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm.

The Debasement of World Currency:It Is Inflation, But Not As We Know It

The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

The dollar is the reserve currency of the world.

The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

The euro is a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933.

The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth model, on the other hand, is in a deep crisis.

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.

The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?

The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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