Nassau William Senior Quotes

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

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

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged 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

Money performs but a momentary function … when the transaction is finally closed, it will always be found, that one kind of commodity has been exchanged for another

When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

I do not think anything should be given for free. Everything has a price attached to it.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.

A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. Its value is in the necessities of the animal man. It is so much warmth, so much bread, so much water, so much land.

The people demanded gunpowder for every thing. If we had possessed any quantity of that article, we should have got on well, for here it is of great value. On our return, near this spot we found a good-sized fowl was sold for a single charge of gunpowder. Next to that, English calico was in great demand.

Let us sell merchandise to the Spanish and obtain from them gold and silver.

Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.

The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

Everyone lives by selling something.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

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

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.