Quotes About Currency

Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest level of the House Absolute, so we have each of us in the dustiest cellars of our minds a counter at which we strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present.

we have each of us in the dustiest cellars of our minds a counter at which we strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present.

so we have each of us in the dustiest cellars of our minds a counter at which we strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present.

Rarely understanding how much shopkeepers and waiters were charging him, he paid for everything with fifty-or hundred-franc notes and came home with sagging pockets of change.

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

Words are the money of fools.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Gold has worked for thousands of years, but now with the Internet, it works even better.

If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.

The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

Digital currency attempts to disrupt the financial industry, and it's potentially threatening to the existing financial services industry, but it doesn't have to be that way.

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.

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

As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.

Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone.

Concluye que una vez que una nación se acostumbra a endeudarse, le es casi imposible llegar a pagar las enormes obligaciones que contrae. Y condena con dureza a los Estados que, para pagar artificialmente lo que deben, desvalorizan sus monedas, con lo que pagan sólo una parte generalmente pequeña de las deudas que contrajeron.

Sure, it's illegal to melt down your nickels (for now), but the point is, "I won't need to melt it down because once they change the way they make the nickel, the old nickels become even more valuable than before because scarcity sets in as they begin to remove them from circulation.

For the various necessaries of life are not easily carried about, and hence men agreed to employ in their dealings with each other something which was intrinsically useful and easily applicable to the purposes of life, for example, iron, silver, and the like. Of this the value was at first measured by size and weight, but in process of time they put a stamp upon it, to save the trouble of weighing and to mark the value.

Money on paper is not even paper money," my mother says….

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.