Money is any object or record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, occasionally in the past, a standard of deferred payment. Any kind of object or secure verifiable record that fulfills these functions can serve as money.
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Quotations About This Subject:
- If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to. ,
- Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash. ,
- Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king. ,
- Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. ,
- Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. ,
- Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. ,
- His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine. ,
- 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. ,
- Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. ,
- Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
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- Gold, Peace, and Prosperity ,
- The Case for Gold ,
- Economics of a pure gold standard ,
- Fiat Money Inflation in France ,
- Money Madness ,
- Indian Currency and Finance ,
- Monetary Reform ,
- Money, and the Law of Attraction ,
- Some Thoughts Concerning Education ,
- General Theory of Employment Interest and Money
