Currency Quotes
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We hope the report won't sit on the shelf somewhere but that it actually gets into the currency of political thinking. With the mayor and council races coming up next year, I think there's a good chance that it will.
Alice Rivlin
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The weakness in the currency is probably the story of the day and the currency sensitive stocks are doing very well.
Matt Willis Busted
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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
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I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.
Hayley Atwell
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Vladimir Lenin
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People have asked why the new currency introduced was different in size and thickness from the old. This is because the new currency has been designed to make it hard to counterfeit. When you are going to make a change of this magnitude, you need to get the best standards in place.
Urjit Patel
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The stability of the rate is the main issue and the Central Bank manages to ensure it one way or another. This was finally achieved after the Central Bank switched to a floating national currency exchange rate.
Vladimir Putin
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Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.
George Washington
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There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
Ben Affleck
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China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
Virginia Foxx
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There is no good press and bad press. Fame is made of quantities of attention, not qualities, and is therefore binary: There is Press or No Press. Not Hot and Cold, but Hot and Off. Attention is the currency in a world with too many people - whoever arrests the news cycle long enough to make themselves the topic, wins.
Cintra Wilson
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The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
Kinky Friedman
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Thus those reformers, who look for a remedy by creating artificial carrying-costs for the money through the device of requiring legal-tender currency to be periodically stamped at a prescribed cost in order to retain its quality as money, or in analogous ways, have been on the right track; and the practical value of their proposals deserves consideration.
John Maynard Keynes
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The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.
Randy Alcorn
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Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.
Amy Poehler
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In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
Steve Erickson
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Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.
Evan Osnos
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Complementary currencies work in addition to existing money, rather than replacing existing, official money. There are whole different families of complementary currencies. One of them is local currencies. One is regional currencies. Another is functional currencies. Another is social-purpose currencies.
Bernard Lietaer
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Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.
Wences Casares
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Conventional money is supposed to be doing everything. By adding in complementary currencies, you actually get different types of things and different outcomes from different complementary currencies.
Bernard Lietaer
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As you know, in the latter part of 2008 and early 2009, the Federal Reserve took extraordinary steps to provide liquidity and support credit market functioning, including the establishment of a number of emergency lending facilities and the creation or extension of currency swap agreements with 14 central banks around the world.
Ben Bernanke
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A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
John Maynard Keynes
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It used to be that wealthy people were the leisure class, and having time off was a status symbol. That's switched now: being busy and overworked is the reality for many white-collar workers, and there's a kind of perverse currency to that, competitive busy-ness. At the other end of the income scale, there's a swath of lower-wage workers who are underemployed or unemployed, with too much unwanted leisure, and zero status for that. For shift workers, devices mean they're accessible in ways they weren't before, susceptible to that call from the boss to log more hours.
Katrina Onstad