Currency Quotes

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

War, Political, Nation

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

Love, Work, Patience

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.
Ron Paul

Crisis, Big, Rejection

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

Best, System, Destroy

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson

Power, Control, Able

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Money, Bad, Vanity

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

Money, Men, Minds

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
Donald Trump

Country, Understand, Write

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
Donald Trump

Great, Trying, Country

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
Ross Perot

Nation, Weak, Economy

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
George Santayana

Change, Experience, Daily

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
Stephen King

Money, Great, Best

I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.
David Cameron

Children, Mean, Put

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

True, Someone, Else

The most potentially transformative impact of social media is its ability to encourage brands to marry profit and purpose. The reason brands participate is that such outreach earns those companies social currency enabling them to start or participate in conversations that connect them to consumers in meaningful ways.
Simon Mainwaring

Reason, Start, Purpose

The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.
Simon Mainwaring

Values, Universal, Brands

Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.
Simon Mainwaring

Technology, Human, Find

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.
David Cameron

Successful, Long, Single

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
J. Michael Straczynski

Inside, Internet, Among

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
Kinky Friedman

Life, Important, Spirit

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
Daniel Webster

Labor, Bread, Robs

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Daniel Webster

Greatest, Political, Evils

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Jules Renard

Words, Small, Making

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
John Updike

Wisdom, Why, Idea

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
Erica Jong

Remember, Used, Worth

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

Government, Democracy, Control

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
Barbara Kingsolver

Life, Change, Small

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.
Kevin Smith

Life, Writing, Down

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.
Robert Carlyle

Career, Through, Two

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

Money, Put, Times

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