Quotes About Currency

We're one corporate meltdown away from having the dollar be the peso's bitch.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

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

Knowledge is currency here....

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.

One, bitcoin is not a stand-alone currency but a unit of accounting attached to an innovative payment network. Two, this network and therefore bitcoin only obtained its market value through real-time testing in a market environment.

Money is a blank slate that gets its value from the energy and meaning we give it.

Because money is currency and currency is energy, when you shrink down and lower your prices to accommodate someone, you're basically saying the equivalent of "I don't think you could grow and manifest the money you desire to work with me. I don't believe you're that powerful. I also don't think I have the right to charge what I'm worth or to make the decisions around here about what to charge.

Money is an exchange of energy between people.

Penny for your thoughts," she commented as she ran a hand over my dress, smoothing the fabric. "A penny won't buy you much these days," I told Lily as she zipped me. "Thought inflation.

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The Resorts of Han Wavel were so obscenely luxurious that it was said a Breqindan male would sell his mother for a night in the Sandcastle Hotel's infamous vibro-suite, This is not as shocking as it sounds as parents are accepted currency on Brequinda and a nicely moisturized septuagenarian with a good set of teet can be traded for a mid-range family moto-carriage.

Today approximately three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States.

Advice, n. the smallest current coin.

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

Opinions are a useless currency

The screen uses violence in such a customary fashion that it seems somehow like a devalued currency, which is at one and the same time provoking and conventional.

1838: On January 8th President Jackson pays off the final instalment of the national debt, which had been created by allowing the banks to issue currency for government bonds, rather than simply issuing treasury notes without such debt. He becomes the only President to ever pay off the debt.

gray pennies that had been made out of steel instead of copper during the Second World War.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Well, bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return. You know, bonds have an interest coupon. Stocks have earnings and dividends. Gold has nothing, and bitcoin has nothing. There is nothing to support the bitcoin except the hope that you will sell it to somebody for more than you paid for it.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.