Quotes about currency

John Rogers - Local Money: What Difference Does It Make?

Other generations faced big challenges: the Industrial Revolution with its sweeping social and economic changes abolishing slavery defeating fascism establishing civil rights for all. The generations now alive must solve the 'money problem'. We must reclaim money from the speculators and restore it to its role as a medium for trade that serves us all.

Laurie Buchanan - PhD

Communication is the mortar that holds humanity together it’s the very currency of our society.

Kyle Barger -

Our greatest currency is our time and we cannot save it. Spend it wisely and never waste another's or your own.

John Rogers -

The purpose of this pamphlet is to explain how local currencies work. Alone they cannot solve all the multiple financial, social and environmental crises we face, but they are an increasingly important part of the answer.

John Rogers - Local Money: What Difference Does It Make?

Maybe you care deeply about the environment or other global issues, or you feel strongly about your local region or community, but you just don't see how local money can help. I hope that this pamphlet will show you connections between what you care about and 'the money problem'.

John Rogers - Local Money: What Difference Does It Make?

We can always create enough of our own local money to handle all the trades and exchanges we wish to make. While national currency basically drives, and is driven by profit, local money supports people with other values: people who believe in local diversity, mutual help, treating people as assets instead of problems, valuing all types of work, creating strong social networks and protecting the environment. It is these people, their values and commitment that make local money systems work.

Neal Stephenson -

And yet all the gold is in England, it is dug up from Portuguese and Spanish mines, but it flows by some occult power of attraction to the Tower of London.” “Flows,” Caroline repeated. “Flows, like a current.” Sophie nodded. “And the English have grown so used to this that they use ‘currency’ as a synonym for money, as if no distinction need be observed between them.

Neal Stephenson -

How does a poor country defeat rich ones?” “Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it.” “Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?” “But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel.” “Currency!” “Indeed.

Amish Tripathi -

The rivers fight with each other with the only currency that they know water. We humans fight with the only currency that we know in this age violence.

Ankala V Subbarao -

Caveman used to be a hunter-gatherer...Modern man hunts for jobs(if he wants to be an employee) and for heads (if he is an employer), and later gathers paper in the form of currency notes, contracts, policies or shares.

Sunday Adelaja -

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed with the currency time

Topsy Gift -

Greatness can only be procured with the currency of time and discipline

Terry Pratchett - Making Money

Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads is a bit tired we ends up earning the money faster'n we can make it, which leads to a bit of what I can only call a conundrum—""You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it?" said Moist, still pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it."That's right, sir

Virchand Gandhi -

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and g

Saminu Kanti -

Naira is our currency, belong to our country and belong to the people. Buy made in Nigeria to grow the Naira to make it value.

Saminu Kanti -

Naira is our currency, belong to our country and belong to the people. Buy made in Nigeria let's grow the Naira to make it value.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Money is not the first step to becoming a great achiever. Your ideas determine the cost you will need to pay. So if you have no ideas, you can't know the amount you will need!

Amit Kalantri -

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza -

Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.

Alan Cohen -

Money is but one venue for generosity.Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.

Israelmore Ayivor -

The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it.

André Aciman - Call Me by Your Name

Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency? Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where you find it, how you acquire it, what you pay for it, black market, grey market, taxed, untaxed, under the table, over the counter.

Dan Garfat-Pratt - Citations: A Brief Anthology

One makes his own meanings as the counterfeiter prints his own money: both know full well that the value of either rests solely in the gullibility of its recipient...

Hayley Atwell -

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

Jamie Dimon -

Virtual currency, where it's called a bitcoin vs. a U.S. dollar, that's going to be stopped. No government will ever support a virtual currency that goes around borders and doesn't have the same controls. It's not going to happen.

Vladimir Lenin -

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Martin Feldstein -

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

Tom Wallace -

Civil war tends to give a helping hand to the velocity of currency, Ukraine can attest to that. However, it is quite an unpleasant way to find the intrinsic value of worthlessness.

Amit Kalantri -

With limited money you can survive, with more money you can live.

Suzy Kassem -

Your faith is your conscience, and your conscience is your faith. You cannot have faith without a conscience, but you can have a conscience without faith. Man was designed to be good with or without religion, yet the challenge for many is staying good. Some people claim to be religious but have no conscience, while some people without religion are very much aware of their conscience. Therefore, a religious label does not define your character or validate your worth. In the end, all men will be j

Ayn Rand -

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

Tiffany Winfree -

Love and Hate are two of the most used, abused, and misused words of mankind.

Israelmore Ayivor -

Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn the unturned.

Alexei Maxim Russell -

People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

Heaven's currency is friendship.

Amit Ray - Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.

Sunday Adelaja - spending time or investing time?

If you will exchange your life for greatness, if you will use the currency of time to buy greatness; then greatness will deliver to you every other thing you need in life.

Sunday Adelaja - spending time or investing time?

If there is anything you need in life that you haven’t gotten, it is because you are yet to pay for it via the currency of time.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.

Sunday Adelaja - spending time or investing time?

For you to be able to be fruitful, to multiply and saturate the earth with your products, you have to first know how to properly use the currency of time.

Sunday Adelaja -

Employment bargains your life and time for a piece of currency

Amy Neftzger - The War of Words

Opinions are a useless currency

J.R. Rim -

Get money when you don't need it, so you can use it when you need to.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Politics knows no currency.

John Rogers - Local Money: What Difference Does It Make?

Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.

Michael Grant - Lies

Albert had created a currency based on gold bullets and McDonald’s game pieces. He’d wanted to call the currency something else, but no one remembered what. So, ’Bertos they were, a play on “Albert,” coined by Howard, of course, who had also come up with “the FAYZ” to describe their weird little world.Sam had thought Albert was nuts with his obsession with creating money. But the evidence was in: Albert’s system was producing just enough food for kids to survive. And a lot more kids were working

Richie Norton -

Trust isn't just the greatest currency, it's the only currency. Once trust is gone in any form of currency, the value is gone.

Kamand Kojouri -

I left the bankbecause they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems.So I went to the store,but they didn’t acceptmy currency of words.So I boxed all my storiesand took them to charity.But they refused my donation and asked me to give blood instead.I opened the notebooks and made them look, 'What do you think I wrote these in?

Amy Poehler -

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.

Wayne Chirisa -

Chase after money and the stuggering race will never end but reach out for successful ideas and the sources of money will chase after you to fill your pockets.

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