Quotes About Currency

energy is the only truly universal currency, and nothing (from galactic rotations to ephemeral insect lives) can take place without its transformations.

Never before had time seemed so like currency, each moment a coin that could be well- or ill-spent, or even, if one wasn't careful, wasted and lost.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

After all, in fairy tales, there was only one thing to do. In every story with a long sleep and a waking in it. An easy thing, a pretty thing. Standard currency.

All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin.

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

El pan que es ya santo sobre la mesa de casa, conviértese sobre la mesa de la Iglesia en el cuerpo inmortal de Cristo. También la moneda es el signo visible de una transustanciación; es la hostia infame del demonio. El dinero amonedado es el excremento corrompido del demonio

Pero los hombres se destruyen con el hierro y se compran con el oro.

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

Chocolate, like all other types of money, has no inherent value outside of a cultural context.

People fool themselves into thinking that the currency of unhappiness will buy them happiness. That we have to "pay our dues," go on some sort of ride, and then get dropped off at a big location called our "purpose," where now we can be happy. It doesn't work that way.

As we move toward the employee-less society, where ideas become currency and innovation gets rewarded more than manual or managerial services, you will have the opportunity to live a life you want to. In I Was Blind but Now I See, I wrote about how people no longer needed a home or an education. How both are leashes that society has created to hold you down and prevent you from growth.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money. Money gets depleted until you go broke. But good ideas buy you good experiences, buy you better ideas, buy you better experiences, buy you more time, save your life. Financial wealth is a side effect of the "runner's high" of your idea muscle.

Ideas are the currency of life. Not money—because money can run out.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money. Money gets depleted until you go broke. But good ideas buy you good experiences, buy you better ideas, buy you better experiences, buy you more time, save your life.

Time could not be bought. The only coin time accepted was life.

In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals.

China understands economics more than most countries and is usually moved to increase freedoms when the yuan is directly involved.

Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.'