Gold Quotes - Page 8

• All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Giving, Earth

  Plato (2016). “Laws”, p.315, Xist Publishing

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• The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Age, Littles, Folly

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• The paper standard is self-destructive.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Self, Paper, Standards

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• Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Real, People

  "Oksana Baiul: Online Interview". Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity itself isn't going to do anything for you....it is an entirely different game to buy a lump of something and hope that somebody else pays you more for that lump two years from now than it is to buy something that you expect to produce income for you over time.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Games, Two

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• Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Past, Mountain

  Carter G. Woodson, Charles H. Wesley (2008). “The Story of the Negro Retold”, p.427, Wildside Press LLC

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• What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

  Alexander Pope

  Cutting, Want, Bread

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• Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Giving, Political

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• I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

  George Linnaeus Banks

  Men, Reason, Hail

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• Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

  Paracelsus

  Lying, Medicine, May

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• If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

  Robert Ringer

  Government, Media, Opposites

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• What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief has proved correct. Beyond that, the rising price has on its own generated additional buying enthusiasm, attracting purchasers who see the rise as validating an investment thesis. As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Past, Rising Prices

  "Treasury commitee struggles to hide scorn over Osborne's Help to Buy plan" by Nils Pratley, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• I have no views as to where it will be, but the one thing I can tell you is it won't do anything between now and then except look at you. Whereas, you know, Coca-Cola (KO) will be making money, and I think Wells Fargo (WFC) will be making a lot of money and there will be a lot - and it's a lot - it's a lot better to have a goose that keeps laying eggs than a goose that just sits there and eats insurance and storage and a few things like that.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Eggs, Views

  "CNBC's Squawk Box", www.cnbc.com. March 9, 2009.

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• You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Respect, Money, Honesty

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• Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Coal, Mystery

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

  Bryan Ferry

  Girl, Rapper, High Heels

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• Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency.

  Wen Jiabao

  Self Confidence, Important, Comeback

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• Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

  Elizabeth I

  Money, Shining, Ignorant

  Letter, 1581.

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• With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Issues, People

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• [Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Would Be, Investing

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• Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Two, Long

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• When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.

  Publilius Syrus

  Causes, Arguing, Eloquence

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• Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

  Alain de Lille

  Shining

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• I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.

  Murray Rothbard

  People, Coins, Paper

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• The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Mean, Feel Good

  "The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude".

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