Sayed Kashua Quotes

I never have cash on me.

If you want to deemphasise cash, then people should not only have an incentive for going digital but also a disincentive for doing cash.

The truth is I don't really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer cash. I don't like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my 'consumer profile.' I'm anti all cards.

I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag.

The world needs another vehicle to get people to pay in cash.

We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller's cheques rather than cash.

I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

People are used to cash, and getting them out of that is going to be a long and tough exercise.

I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia.

I spend my weekends with my Android phone in an elastic band that has tied to my Android phone my driver's license and my credit card. That's how I live. I'm not carrying a wallet anymore. Like, a wallet is a medieval item, right?

The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your ATM and pull out cash. And you can feel cash in your back pocket and have some tangible comfort there - but in reality, the majority of your money is a number on a screen.

Estonians are much more used to Internet banking rather than an online credit card.

I carry cards because I don't like cash.

Physical money, whether it's checks or cash or credit card, are digitizing in front of us.

I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.

Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people can't remember it - if you wanted money you had to go to the bank and take the money out in cash form, and you couldn't take out money that you didn't have. But with the credit card you can spend money you don't have, and that is just so tempting.

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

I don't carry cash often. I'm all about the plastic.