Gold Quotes
Quotes, wisdoms and proverbs about gold
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| "Contentment is the philosopher's stone. Contentment turns into gold whatever it touches." | Benjamin Franklin |
| "No bet has been more certain to be won in the centuries of monetary history than that a piece of gold, inaccessible to the inflationary policy of governments, would preserve its purchasing power better than a bank bill." | Wilhelm Röpke, German economist |
| "Gold is good for those who know how to use it properly, but it seriously harms those who use it badly." | Johann Agricola, German theologian, student and friend of Luther |
| "Gold is a currency. It is still - by all indications - a premium currency. No fiat currency, including the dollar, equals it." | Alan Greenspan, ex-head of the U.S. Federal Reserve |
| "Gold has worked since the time of Alexander the Great. If anything has lasted over two thousand years, I don't think it's because of prejudice or a false theory." | Bernard Baruch, U.S. financier |
| "The less confidence you have in politicians, the more confidence you have in gold." | Gino Galuzzi |
| "Gold is dug out of the ground somewhere in the world. Then we melt it into bars, build an underground vault and dig it back in. If aliens were watching us do this, it would strike them as richly obscure and strange." | Warren Buffett |
| "If people understood how our monetary system works,we would have a revolution - and we would have it tomorrow morning." | Henry Ford |
| "Gold is money, everything else is credit / "Gold is money and nothing else." | John Pierpont Morgan, (US Banker (1837-1913) |
| "Without a gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from expropriation by inflation. Then there is no safe store of value (...) The financial policy of the welfare state makes it necessary that there should be no way for the wealthy to protect themselves. This is the shabby secret of the welfare state tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a measure of 'hidden' expropriation of wealth." | Alan Greenspan, Fed President (essay "Gold and Economic Freedom," 1966) |
| "You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the honesty and intelligence of government officials. And with all due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, choose gold" | George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright |
| "Gold has worked since the time of Alexander the Great. If anything has lasted over two thousand years, I don't think it's because of prejudice or a false theory." | Bernard Baruch, U.S. financier and stock market speculator |
| "The belief of the medieval alchemists that they could make gold out of lead was a manifestation of sober reason compared to the modern delusion that they could make money out of paper" | Roland Baader, book author |
| "Auro loquente omnis oratio inanis est." - "When gold speaks, the world is silent." | Latin proverb |
| "The desire for gold, is not that for gold. It is for the purpose of liberty and welfare." | Ralph Waldo Emerson, US philosopher |
| "Gold and silver have an intrinsic value that is not arbitrary. It depends on their scarcity, the amount of labor devoted to their acquisition, and it lies in the value of the capital that is in the mines that produce them." | David Ricardo, British economist |
| "Gold is a precious thing. To anyone who possesses it, it fulfills all the desires of this world and helps souls to paradise." | Christopher Columbus, navigator |