Quotes About Currency

Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

Cash is not cheap. The physical infrastructure is not easy to maintain and cheap.

Bitcoin and the whole discussion around it shows how big a need there is for innovation about what money is and how it is stored.

The fear is that if the dollar falls below 50% of the currency basket held by commercial and central banks and insurance companies, there may be a democratization of the way currencies are priced.

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

Once false money (under whatever form it may take) is put into circulation, depreciation will ensue, and manifest itself by the universal rise of everything that is capable of being sold. But this rise in prices is not instantaneous and equal for all things.

Money only appears for the sake of facilitating the arrangements between the parties.

Money represents your time, your energy, your talents, your total personality converted into currency. We usually hold on to it tenaciously, yet it is uncertain in value and we cannot take it into the next world.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

follow the money

Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff.

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

Money had no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

No, I do not trade Euros. There is no Euro trading in India.

Bitcoin may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of 'good money.' As a tangible form of asset (its core tangibility being its mathematical basis), it could become an incredibly important building block for the 21st century's global economy.

English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.

You look at Bitcoin, and it is an entirely new currency, completely decentralized, anonymous; transactions occur incredibly fast for free, all designed by the free market.

People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.

Bitcoin will make a dent in society when more normal transactions occur that would have occurred with dollars or credit card.

The whole thing of moving the currency through currency sorting and detection machines and so on that was the whole process actually encouraging electronic transactions.

A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.