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Quotes About Currency

Despite the overriding importance of inflation in the investment equation, we will not punish you further with another full recital of our views; inflation itself will be punishment enough. (Copies of previous discussions are available for masochists.) But, because of the unrelenting destruction of currency values, our corporate efforts will continue to do a much better job of filling your wallet than of filling your stomach.
~ Warren Buffett
They'd lost the most important thing and he gave it back to them. He loved this country, he loved these people, and he loved my mom and he loved me, but that didn't earn him his legacy. He is still talked about today because he gave these people something no one had ever offered before. No government. No military. No warlord. No rebellion... He gave them hope - the currency of love - and they loved him for it.
~ Charles Martin
Did you know there's now a coin shortage? Yes, America is literally out of common cents.
~ Internet meme, July 2020
Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal. Freedom of money and freedom of banking... are the principles that must guide our steps.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
Berlin. 25 June 1940. I have the impression that we are rushing for a common currency for the whole of Europe. That would be progress, of course, and, one would hope, of lasting significance. Letter from Helmuth von Moltke (military intelligence)1
~ Len Deighton
him, eventually cash will become irrelevant and governments will be unable to trace digital currency." "Do you know the names of other corrupt agents?
~ James Patterson
I am saying that currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive, and immoral. It should be stopped. It should be made illegal.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
I'm much more confident with crypto than with banks or fiat currency because I can actually control it, and the money supply is transparent, stated up front. It makes online shopping a lot easier and a lot safer.
~ Erik Voorhees
I am concerned about the erraticness of the dollar. The dollar is up, the dollar is down. We print a lot of dollars. The dollar gets devalued. That is really the concern. If people think the gold price up and down is a reflection of something wrong with gold, no - I say it is something wrong with the dollar.
~ Ron Paul
If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.
~ Bill Janklow
For decades, without so much as a peep from the Trump-hating establishment, China manipulated its currency and stole American technology.
~ Steve Hilton
I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger.
~ Gavin Andresen
If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.
~ Andy Samberg
Everywhere the culture reproduces itself, reflects itself, as in a hall of mirrors - the landscape, the language, the currency, all bouncing off each other, recreating each other - and in the midst of those mirrors, both reflected and projecting, stands the child, discovering himself in these castle walls, these terraced hills, the liquid words he speaks, and now in this coloured paper, too.
~ Tim Parks
Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches.
~ Tim Radford
currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).
~ Timothy Ferriss
The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Gold is getting old. The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees, but that's just the beginning.
~ Timothy Ferriss
When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
~ G. Edward Griffin
As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.
~ Henry Paulson