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“The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.”

Money Fiction Family Paper Average Budgets Convenience Statistician

Book:Money

Source: Money

“The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.”

Money Millions Paper Dollars Papers Heiress

Author:Vina Delmar

“American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.”

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Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.”

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Author:Lord Byron

“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”

Source: Trump: The Art of the Deal

“France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.”

Hands Fall Money Tears Travel Paper France Falling Apart Toilets Toilet Paper

Book:Billy Wilder: Interviews

Source: Billy Wilder: Interviews

“There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.”

People Use Government Money Paper Gold Encouragement Discouraging Circulation

Author:Murray Rothbard

“Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.”

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Author:Joey Bishop

“There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.”

Ideas Real Wisdom Three Decision Money Knowledge Impossible Paper Newspapers This Day Substitutes Exposed Currency

Author:Eli Broad

“There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.”

“To those advocates of independent paper moneys who also champion the free market, I would address this simple question: "Why don't you advocate the unlimited freedom of each individual to manufacture dollars?" If dollars are really and properly things-in-themselves, why not let everyone manufacture them as they manufacture wheat and baby food?”

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Author:Murray Rothbard