Patrick deWitt Quotes

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.

If Money were given to a People in greater Quantity than there was a Demand for, Money would fall in its value; but if only given equal to the Demand, it will not fall in value.

Whoever gambles with the dollar, loses

The gold dollar shall be the standard unit of value. For all forms of money issued or coined in the United States, it shall be maintained at a parity with this standard.

It is what you can do with your money that matters because money has no value in itself.

I read somewhere on the Internet that I have $50 million, and I think what they meant was 50 million pesos.

Most citizens are consumers, not investors. They don't recognize the benefits to consumers that come from investment.

When the ruble is weaker, it is easier to sell, to produce here for a cheap ruble and sell for an expensive dollar, get revenue in dollars and then exchange it for rubles and get a bigger income. This is simple.

Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?

Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about finances than the rest of us know about our businesses... which has proved to be nothing.

I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.