Bernard Lietaer Quotes

#1. Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.

Bernard Lietaer

#2. Being in love brings out both the best and the worst in us. One day we're generous and sensitive to a fault, and the next we're not fit to shoot. Our lives become lessons in extremes.

Patricia Cornwell

#3. GREED AND COMPETITION ARE NOT THE RESULT OF IMMUTABLE HUMAN TEMPERMENT ... GREED AND FEAR OF SCARCITY ARE IN FACT BEING CREATED AND AMPLIFIED ... THE DIRECT CONSEQUENCE IS THAT WE HAVE TO FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER IN ORDER TO SURVIVE

Bernard Lietaer

#4. I'm gonna let him hit one.

Denny McLain

#5. A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

Paulo Coelho

#6. He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
[He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]

George Herbert

#7. The decision to believe is the most important choice we ever make. It shapes all our other decisions.

L. Whitney Clayton

#8. People in your life leave you a rhyme,
On leaving they leave a new footprint in the Sands of Time.

Adhish Mazumder

#9. Rumours of Damen's enslavement in Vere had spread like fire through the camp. To see the Veretian Prince wear the gold cuff of a palace bed slave in turn was shocking, intimate, a symbol of Damen's ownership. Damen

C.S. Pacat

#10. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.

Alyson Noel

#11. Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.

Ivan Illich

#12. The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

Horace

#13. Money is created through bank debt. When you go for a mortgage through a bank, they give you $100,000 to buy a house and basically send you out into the world to bring back $200,000 in the next twenty years. The first $100,000 is principal, and the second is interest.

Bernard Lietaer

#14. Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

Lisel Mueller

#15. Conventional money is supposed to be doing everything. By adding in complementary currencies, you actually get different types of things and different outcomes from different complementary currencies.

Bernard Lietaer

#16. And English society was was not exactly welcoming to these rich newcomers: Imagine Kim Kardashian marrying Prince Henry today and you get the general idea of the suspicion and disdain that the Americans encountered.

Daisy Goodwin

#17. The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World

Bernard Lietaer