Quotes About Currency

Fungibility, n. The tendency of everything to be completely interchangeable with money. Health, for instance.

Money expedited delivery.

We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.

Money has no religion except itself.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

A nickle ain't worth a dime anymore!

Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni's bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled with a foreign-style design, carried it home between chopsticks.

Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.

Money is the apogee of human tolerance. Money is more open-minded than language, state laws, cultural codes, religious beliefs and social habits. Money is the only trust system created by humans that can bridge almost any cultural gap, and that does not discriminate on the basis of religion, gender, race, age or sexual orientation.

The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes. Just as the economic success of a company is measured only by the number of dollars in its bank account, not by the happiness of its employees, so the evolutionary success of a species is measured by the number of copies of its DNA.

People who do not believe in the same god or obey the same king are more than willing to use the same money.

Cowry shells and dollars have value only in our common imagination. Their worth is not inherent in the chemical structure of the shells and paper, or their colour, or their shape. In other words, money isn't a material reality – it is a psychological construct. It works by converting matter into mind.

Trust is the raw material from which all types of money are minted.

People continued to speak mutually incomprehensible languages, obey different rulers and worship distinct gods, but all believed in gold and silver and in gold and silver coins.

The sum total of money in the world is about $60 trillion, yet the sum total of coins and banknotes is less than $6 trillion.7 More than 90 per cent of all money – more than $50 trillion appearing in our accounts – exists only on computer servers.

Money is the only trust system created by humans that can bridge almost any cultural gap, and that does not discriminate on the basis of religion, gender, race, age or sexual orientation. Thanks to money, even people who don't know each other and don't trust each other can nevertheless cooperate effectively

The name 'denarius' became a generic name for coins.

Muslim caliphs Arabicised this name and issued 'dinars'.

El dinero es así un medio universal de intercambio que permite a la gente convertir casi todo en casi cualquier cosa.

money isn't a material reality – it is a psychological construct.

Trade cannot exist without trust, and it is very difficult to trust strangers. The global trade network of today is based on our trust in such fictional entities as currencies, banks and corporations. When two strangers in a tribal society want to trade, they establish trust by appealing to a common god, mythical ancestor or totem animal.

We do not trust the stranger, or the next-door neighbour – we trust the coin they hold. If they run out of coins, we run out of trust.

monday: empty storehouses a rat became the unit of currency