Monetary Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (M) Quotes

"My real friends and my family know that if I`m not working I`m miserable. It`s not for monetary reasons. I already have fame and fortune. Now I want to find the greatness in things - which is why I was attracted to the arts in the first place. Slowly, I have fallen in love with acting. And all the struggle here - the acting lessons, the indie movies - has taught me so much." (being in the limelight)

- Jon Bon Jovi

(When asked about his inspiration growing up) "My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She`s fierce and she`s proud. I`d like to think some of that rubbed off on me. In the film industry, Sidney Poitier, in a broader sense, Muhammad Ali. He put his beliefs above any monetary value. That`s why his celebrity has never waned. Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don`t see a whole lot of that any more."

- Christopher Judge

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

- George W. Bush

I`ve never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I`m deeply fortunate.

- Ben Kingsley

I don`t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that`s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

- Bob Geldof

They`re rare as hens teeth and quite valuable, ... But we prefer to think of it as rare, and not the monetary value.

- John Griffin

CEOs are highly skilled people like a pro athlete or artist, selling a skill, ... It?s very hard to put a monetary value on a skill, but a good quarterback makes $10 million a year, based on an athletic skill, in the same way a painting might bring in $10 million to an artist.

- John Laughlin

We have no evidence the Web address in question is being used. If and when we are notified that they are using our name for monetary gain, we will take the appropriate action.

- Steve Carr

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

- Laurent Fabius

I see kids and pets as similars. With both of them, you give without expecting something monetary in return or having to deal with the `what can you do for me` attitude, ... They just want someone to care and love them. That is all.

- Joe Green

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary (monetary) matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

- Agha Hasan Abedi

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

- Al Zappala

Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.

- Alex Cruz

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.

- Alfredo Martinez

With sound monetary policy, the increases in import prices are offset by lower inflation for domestically produced goods and services.

- Amanda Bird

Why has this improvement in inflation and in the business cycle occurred? I think the answer is better monetary policy, better central banking.

- Amanda Bird

So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

- Amanda Bird

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

- Amanda Bird

We do not understand the links between asset prices, monetary policy, and aggregate demand. We do not understand speculative markets adequately.

- Amanda Bird

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

- Amanda Bird

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

- Andrew Groves

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

- Andrew Harrington

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

- Andrew Schepers

What worries me for Europe is the monetary policy of European authorities. (The ECB) might slow growth in Europe by these rather unjustified increases in interest rates.

- Anne Hawley

Basically, we`re asking for monetary contributions right now.

- Annie Evans

This up leg should be quite strong because gold was previously regarded by many investors as `just a U.S. dollar story`. Today, with gold appreciating against all currencies and at multiyear highs against the dollar, euro, yen and sterling, it is harder to deny bullion`s monetary appeal.

- Anthony Nelson

It reminds me of PIO, or pilot induced oscillation, a lag in the plane`s response to a pilot moving the stick, ... You push the stick down and the plane doesn`t go down right away, so you push it down more, and then it really starts to fall. The same thing happens in monetary policy if you have gradualism in interest rates.

- Ashley Gaeta

It`s risky just to sit back and wait for inflation to show up before we do something, ... One point arguing for monetary restraint is that we seem to have reached a stage where inflation is no longer falling.

- Babe Zaharias

After the chairman, at least in my opinion, Don has had a greater impact on the Fed`s monetary policy process than any other single person. He was very close to the chairman, and they discussed issues frequently. He and this chairman were really a team.

- Babe Zaharias

After the chairman, at least in my opinion, Don has had a greater impact on the Fed`s monetary policy process than any other single person, ... He was very close to the chairman, and they discussed issues frequently. He and this chairman were really a team.

- Babe Zaharias

The Fed still thinks short-term interest rates are low enough to be pushing the economy so they are continuing to remove monetary stimulus at a pace that is likely to be measured.

- Bailey Pryor

It`s nothing of any great monetary value, but of historical significance. It`s the sort of thing that sailors and officers would have worked with every day.

- Barbara Walker

The fear here is the economy is overheating. And this points to a Federal Reserve with a much tighter monetary policy.

- Barry Centini