I am afraid that if the United States had to live by the [monetary]
rules that are imposed on, say, Brazil, the USA would become a
developing country in one generation. It's the system that is
currently unstable, unfair and not working. - Bernard Lietaer
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Conventional currencies are built to create competition, and
complementary currencies are built to create cooperation and
community, and it's important to be aware that both can be
available to make our exchanges. - Bernard Lietaer
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The word "community" comes from Latin, "cum munere". "Munere" is
"to give," and "cum" is "among each other" - so, community means
"to give among each other". In short, it turns out that dollar
exchanges tend to be incompatible with a gift economy.
Complementary currencies are. - Bernard Lietaer
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If money is an agreement within the community to use something as a
medium of exchange, we can create new agreements, can't we? That is
exactly what people are already doing all over the world. So why don't
we do it here? If we're waiting for conventional currency to solve all
our problems, aren't we waiting for Godot? - Bernard Lietaer
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For every dollar a man makes, a woman makes 63 cents.
Fifty years ago that was 62 cents.
So, with that kind of luck, it'll be the year 3888
before we make a buck. - Laurie Anderson
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There are those who say that time is money, and I disagree with them. 
If I lose money, I can get it back.  If I lose time, it's gone forever.
 - Samuel Walters
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I personally don't need a job, I only need *money*. Working is
a pointless waste of time if you look at it objectively.
 - Doctor O, Slashdot, June 2004
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People scoff at the idea of micropayments, but it is important to note
that most of the telecommunications industry is based on them. Most
telephone calls cost only a few cents. Yet, all of those 5-cent calls
add up to real money - hundreds of billions of dollars, in fact.
 - Brian McConnell, Revitalizing the Pay-Per-Call System, April 2005
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Life is mainly a trade-off between money and time. 
You must pay in money or time.
You will be paid in money or time.
 - Gary North, October 2006
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In the final analysis every company and every craftsman has to decide
if they are about the money or about The Craft; The Craft leads to money
but money does not lead to The Craft. Know this lesson well.
 - Clifton Hyatt, May 2007
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The great raw nerve that any IT consulting organization always
strives to protect is lack of recognition and reward ($) for all
the work that bubbles up after the initial scope and budget are
supposedly set in stone. - David Christiansen, June 2007
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Over and over in his career, [Alan Greenspan] warned that inflation was
the economy's main threat. Year after year, the FED inflated. Inflation
is always the problem because the Federal Reserve System exists.
 - Gary North, September 2007