118 Currency Quotes
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Famous Currency Quotes
When comparing different national currencies, we find that the major and most widely used national currencies have a lower annual increase in their supply than the less salable minor currencies. — Saifedean Ammous
A good that assumes the role of a widely accepted medium of exchange is called money. — Saifedean Ammous
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates. — Karl Marx
As money, Bitcoin achieves two objectives; it's both a unit of transaction as well as being a store of value. The U.S. dollar, for example, is a unit of transaction, but it is not a store of value. — Max Keiser
All money is a matter of belief. — Adam Smith
Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value. — John Ralston Saul
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. — Sophocles
The destiny of money is to be encrypted. — Michael Saylor
Money is always moving. — Andrew Tate
Gold is money. Everything else is credit. — J. P. Morgan
Bitcoin is money. Everything else is credit. — Michael Saylor
Further, wide acceptance of a medium of exchange allows all prices to be expressed in its terms, which allows it to play the third function of money: unit of account. — Saifedean Ammous
The most important thing about any monetary system is that it provides a stable unit of account. — Russell Napier
Knowledge is the currency of the universe. — Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess — Irving Fisher
Short Currency Quotes
- Bitcoin is about to become the world’s monetary standard. — Max Keiser
- We pay for every lesson with either time or money. And we use the currency we value least. — Alex Hormozi
- Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized form of money, as durable as the Internet itself. — Max Keiser
- Bitcoin is an ark of encrypted energy to escape the currency flood. — Michael Saylor
- The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. — Vladimir Lenin
- Digital currency is not going away. — Jensen Huang
- Besides having an audience, the most important currency for any leader is his or her reputation. — Lewis Howes
- Time is the ultimate currency and I should have been more tight-fisted with it. — Naval Ravikant
- The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust. — Jason Calacanis
- Bitcoin is probably the most fungible currency ever created. — Max Keiser
Live Currency Quotes
A digital currency that would survive a nuclear war: the full Bitcoin transaction history, all the way back to the genesis block, exists in over 10,000 copies located in over 100 countries - and that's just counting the listening copies running live. — Nick Szabo
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. — Pete Cashmore
Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences. — Cheryl Richardson
Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency. — Morley Safer
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency. — Pete Cashmore
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency: With hundreds of TV channels, billions of Web sites, podcasts, radio shows, music downloads and social networking, our attention is more fragmented than ever before. — Pete Cashmore
I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in. — Merrill Markoe
True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency. — Gary Vaynerchuk
Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth. — Jean Houston
And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness. — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Digital Currency Quotes
At Coinbase, our first priority is to ensure that we operate the most secure and compliant digital currency exchange in the world. — Brian Armstrong
By lowering the barrier to create new digital currency applications, we'll see an explosion in the number of ideas tried. We'll invest in, partner with, or build a number of new applications in this space, including replacements for many of the services people use in finance 1.0. — Brian Armstrong
Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins. — Max Keiser
My belief is that the vast majority of people using digital currency today are not seeking to evade taxes. They are simply investors seeking returns and people interested in a nascent new technology. — Brian Armstrong
I see Bitcoin as ultimately becoming a reserve currency for banks, playing much the same role as gold did in the early days of banking. Banks could issue digital cash with greater anonymity and lighter weight, more efficient transactions. — Hal Finney
A digital currency issued by a central bank would be a global target for cyber attacks, cyber counterfeiting, and cyber theft. — Jerome Powell
The average person may, at a high level, think of us as a digital currency bank, but we're not a bank. — Brian Armstrong
It's important to understand how Coinbase thinks about regulation and compliance in the digital currency space. As an exchange, we view compliance as key to digital currency's success. — Brian Armstrong
I do think some digital currency will end up being the reserve currency of the world. I see a path where that's going to happen. — Brian Armstrong
Bitcoin and Ethereum are doing different things. Bitcoin is a digital currency, and the protocol is written to sustain this cryptocurrency. Clearly, Ethereum platform has ETH, it is also a digital currency, but it exists to sustain the protocol. — Vitalik Buterin
Foreign Currency Quotes
Javier Milei has legalised the use of all foreign currencies in Argentina, including Bitcoin. Not every country has to make Bitcoin legal tender; each country will have their own unique path. All roads lead to Bitcoin. — Samson Mow
Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods. — Jean Ziegler
All issues - purchasing and selling of currency - are related to the regulation of the national currency market. However, it is still difficult to say what will be the reaction of the Central Bank and if it would lead to increasing the gold and foreign currency reserves. — Vladimir Putin
Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies. — Mohamed El-Erian
Therefore today we have an absolutely sufficient level of gold and foreign currency reserves in order to ensure economic stability and sustainable foreign trade turnover. — Vladimir Putin
If everything stops functioning our level will be able to ensure our trade turnover using its gold and foreign currency reserves for at least six months or more, which is more than enough. — Vladimir Putin
Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into. — Lee Child
China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent. — Arjuna Mahendran
Kindness Currency Quotes
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on. — Simone Weil
The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life). — Ajahn Brahm
Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency. — Amity Shlaes
Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency. — Alan Cohen
In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them. — Ingrid Newkirk
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance is no different in kind than allowing government salaried Chaplains for the military or for the Congress, or including the official motto, In God We Trust, on our currency. — Orrin Hatch
The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real. — James Surowiecki
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved. — Alan Furst
I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency. — Ayn Rand
Euro Quotes
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet
I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names! — Otto von Bismarck
We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe. — Romano Prodi
The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round. — Nigel Farage
By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF. — Jose Manuel Barroso
This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient. — Nigel Farage
I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count. — Kurt Angle
If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level. — Romano Prodi
Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America. — Kevin Keegan
If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers. — Mario Draghi
People Writing About Currency
More Currency Quotes
When you do business with people you need money. When you do business with God you need faith. Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God. — Reinhard Bonnke
The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority. — W. Edwards Deming
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! — Mahatma Gandhi
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it. — Howard Schultz
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity. — Nicolaus Copernicus
History shows that you cannot insulate yourself from the consequences of other people having a stronger currency than yours. — Saifedean Ammous
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. — Thomas Jefferson
After PayPal, I never thought I would get interested in payments again. But bitcoin is fulfilling PayPal's original vision to create the new world currency. — David O. Sacks
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. — Ernest Hemingway
It's completely reasonable, even if some Bitcoin currency purists wouldn't like it, to have credit and debit card payments denominated in Bitcoin rather than dollars, and net settled on Bitcoin instead of on Fedwire. — Nick Szabo
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
First it's a new form of money, and that's actually a really important thing. Many places in the world, people don't have stable currency, and there's all kinds of wealth that's eroded from the poorest people in society. It's just a foundational part that we take for granted in the US, given that we have 8 or 9% inflation, which we think is extreme. In many places in the world, you get 25% in a month or something. — Brian Armstrong
The United States is the world’s reserve currency. The dollar is the world’s reserve currency. And we have the ability to borrow at low rates. We have the ability to service that debt. — Jerome Powell
In 1971, the U.S. 'closed the gold window,' starting an era of global fiat money reference-pricing that has been unprecedented in history. Never before had the world operated on the basis of no country anywhere having a currency tied to something with intrinsic value like gold. — Max Keiser
Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people. — Bruce D. Perry
History has shown that governments will inevitably succumb to the temptation to inflate the money supply. Whether because of outright corruption, a 'national emergency' or an infestation of inflationary schools of economics, the government will always find a reason and a way to print more money, expanding the government's power and reducing the wealth of currency holders. — Saifedean Ammous
Bitcoin can be best understood as distributed software that allows for transfer of value using a currency protected from unexpected inflation without relying on trusted third parties. In other words, Bitcoin automates the functions of a modern central bank and makes them predictable and virtually immutable by programming them into code decentralized among thousands of network members, none of whom can alter the code without the consent of the rest. This makes Bitcoin the first demonstrably reliable operational example of digital cash and digital hard money. — Saifedean Ammous
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. — John Burroughs
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency. — Charlton Heston
Global bonds are collapsing in their fiat currencies, which are collapsing against the dollar, which is fast losing purchasing power. It will be months & years before the average fiat user realizes just how much they're getting ruined financially. The new normal is poverty. — Saifedean Ammous
French economist Jacques Reuff coined the phrase “deficit without tears to describe the new economic reality that the United States inhabited, where it could purchase whatever it wanted from the world and finance it through debt monetized by inflating the currency that the entire world used. — Saifedean Ammous
In 2012, when the European financial bailouts, to keep Greece afloat and in the euro currency zone, began and demands for Greek austerity measures were made, the geographical divide soon became obvious. The donors and demanders were the northern countries, the recipients and supplicants mostly southern. It didn’t take long for Germans to point out that they were working until 65 but paying taxes that were going to Greece so people could retire at 55. — Tim Marshall
The introduction of Bitcoin, as a currency native to the Internet superseding national borders and outside the realm of governmental control, offers an intriguing possibility for the emergence of a new international monetary system, to be analyzed in Chapter 9. — Saifedean Ammous
Bitcoin truly a money revolution. It’s a very important insurance policy for countries that don’t have the dollar as a reserve currency as we do. — Cathie Wood
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