Gold Rush Quotes

• Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Opportunity, Thinking

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• During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.

  Peter Lynch

  Nice, Blue, Jeans

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

  Patrick deWitt

  Character, Luck, Way

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.74, Granta Books

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• The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

  John Jakes

  Land, California, Gold

  John Jakes (2012). “California Gold”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.

  Will Hobbs

  People, Gold, Internet

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• I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

  Neil Young

  Water, Gold, Records

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• Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Running, Country, Truth

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• It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels.

  Josh Williams

  Gold, Selling, Shovels

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• If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

  Cornel West

  Views, Gold, Ends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

  Jeff Bezos

  Opportunity, Two, Innovation

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• DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

  James D. Watson

  Dna, Gold

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• Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Book, Gold

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• The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Gold, Ponies, Made

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• Its very important to me to be respected by true talented artists and great minds than by the masses who need to be told how to think. Its more important for me to do things that are spiritually rewarding because that wealth is what makes me feel alive. I do not touch projects that do not yield personal fulfillment, or put me in a field with talent that is over-measured. You wont find me where there is no Truth. And Im not one to jump on any bandwagons or join a gold rush without a purpose. Id rather create my own projects and grow my own fields.

  Suzy Kassem

  Artist, Thinking, Yield

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• California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Land, California

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Moving, Land

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.

  Kim Thayil

  Fashion, Rocks, Marketing

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• I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

  Eleanor Catton

  Writing, Adventure, Years

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• This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling of fortune; the unlucky masses hoping to skin or borrow the luck of others, or the luck of a destination. A seductive notion, and one I thought to be wary of. To me, luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

  Patrick deWitt

  Character, Men, Roots

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• Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used. We need a leadership that is based on partnership, a leadership that unites nations and makes it possible to solve the problems of the globe together. Otherwise, we will have another Gold Rush for a superpower that wants to gain even greater advantages, that wants to gain an absolutely new position for itself. That would lead to a perverse utopia.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Thinking, America

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• So what'll happen is there'll be some very good cinema experiences are going to see 3D where you have to pay more. And there'll be some bad experiences of going to see movies in 3D. And I just hope that this kind of gold rush mentality doesn't kill what could actually be something that really, really benefits the industry.

  Neal H. Moritz

  Gold, Cinema, Benefits

  Source: collider.com

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