Terry Pratchett Quotes

The gold coin is spent.

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

Money is the best rule of commerce.

There's nothing as real as money.

Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece.

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

Money is a kind of poetry.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

Roz, what think??

Money was of no value whatever. Gold is quite unknown; it is thought to be brass; trade is carried on by barter alone. The people know nothing of money.

Now, Gold and Silver contribute very little in their own nature to our Lives, for which all Earthly Things seem to have been created. Yet Men, as if they would make Nature asham'd of this, have agreed to make those Metals of equal vaue to all other things, to make 'em the Price and Measrue of all, and the Instruments of changing and exchanging whatever can be found good in this World.

Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce; but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another

The Practice of most Trading Nations confirms, that Paper is more Qualified for the Use of Money, than Silver; providing it have a Value

After all, money is but the agent of the transfer of values

The use of money and the use of words are analogous. Money is not always used to buy things which can be pointed to, e.g., when it buys permission to sit in a theatre, or a title, or one's life.

The program you are to discuss constitutes, of course, only one phase of the arrangements which must be made between nations to ensure an orderly, harmonious world. But it is a vital phase, affecting ordinary men and women everywhere. For it concerns the basis upon which they will be able to exchange with one another the natural riches of the earth and the products of their own industry and ingenuity. Commerce is the life- blood of a free society. We must see to it that the arteries which carry that blood stream are not clogged again, as they have been in the past, by artificial barriers created through senseless economic rivalries.

It is never exactly clear what makes something a quid or a quo.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

If you take the MY out of money, you're left with ONE.