Quotes About Currency

I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

In the Google era, Newton's system of the world—one universe, one money, one God—is now in eclipse. His unitary foundation of irreversible physics and his irrefragable golden money have given way to infinite parallel universes and multiple paper moneys manipulated by fiat. Money, like the cosmos, has become relativistic and reversible at will.

Money is not a magic wand but a measuring stick, not wealth but a gauge of it.

How much are you willing to pay?" she asked. "Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous—some families would put him up for a week for a single coin. "Half a doubloon a day," she said. "No, you see, the idea behind bargaining is that you ask for a larger amount." Apparently, he understood sarcasm just fine.

There's such a currency to Led Zeppelin, or the members of Led Zeppelin. If I put it to you this way, on the run-up to the O2 concert, the only music that we played was music of Led Zeppelin - the past catalog stuff; that's what we played on the way towards shaping up the set list for that. But we played really, really well.

Bitcoin will hit thousands of dollars per coin, because it's worth at least that much, or it's worth zero.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.

A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

Ah, take the cash, and let the credit go.

I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

I can't blame Angela Merkel for saying she wants a strong euro.

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.

Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.

The gas, which is our main source of power, is priced in dollars.

Money is one of the elements of sovereignty.