Gold Money Quotes

#1. Such general complaints of the scarcity of money do not always prove that the usual number of gold and silver pieces are not circulating in the country, but that many people want those pieces who have nothing to give for them.

Adam Smith

#2. I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

Ernest Seyd

#3. 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

#4. The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.

James Surowiecki

#5. 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

#6. Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.

Adolf Hitler

#7. Trust, like money, needed a guarantee to back it.

Seth Dickinson

#8. that the truly contented man is not the possessor of vast riches. The crown of happiness goes to the person who has the skill to gain money fairly, use it honorably, and not mistake gold for a god of power and light.

Xenophon

#9. It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.

William Mountford

#10. There is no amount of money, and there is neither gold nor silver, nor any treasure trove that can compensate a soul for the loss of love.

Stephan Attia

#11. Time is not money or gold; it is life itself and is limited. You must begin to appreciate every moment of your life and always strive to make the best use of it.

Khurram Murad

#12. Retirement isn't a goal; it's a sentence.

Ari Gold

#13. As Cindy Sheehan was gathering public sympathy as the Gold Star mom against the killing in Iraq, the Republican party decided to import an easier target to pummel. So they brought over the 'I-salute-your-courage, Saddam' religious fundamentalist crack-pot who can't tell us where the money went.

Greg Palast

#14. When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

Christina Stead

#15. God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold.

Criss Jami

#16. Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency ... and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

Alan Greenspan

#17. Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.

Thomas Hobbes

#18. Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

John Buchanan Robinson

#19. Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn't say anything about gold or silver.

Ron Paul

#20. I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#21. Money brings you the women you want, struggle brings you the women you need.

Habeeb Akande

#22. Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Karl Marx

#23. For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper.

Hans F. Sennholz

#24. When the market falls again this time, the Fed will again ramp up its money-printing program. This time I feel a good candidate for the next bubble will be a commodity bubble. This could be the fuel for the fire for a new gold bubble.

David Skarica

#25. From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically, under a monetary system in which people used gold and silver coins rather than paper money as the media of exchange.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#26. Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

Tom Petty

#27. Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy.

Toba Beta

#28. Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ ... "
(Rapunzel glares)
"Prin ... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.

Shannon Hale

#29. Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate.

Tracy Morgan

#30. I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.

William Golding

#31. The Congress should not be creating money out of thin air, which is what Lincoln did when he created greenbacks. But it is a congressional responsibility to maintain gold and silver as a legal tender.

Ron Paul

#32. The syndicate was successful in including an officer and two other crew members in its plan. Sheikh employed old ways of enticing by wine, women and money to use them.

Ravi Ranjan Goswami

#33. I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.

Eric Heiden

#34. Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.

Kenneth Fisher

#35. Your NAME and your REPUTATION is ALL that you have, so GUARD them. They are worth more than money or gold.

L. Michelle

#36. Gold is money and nothing else.

J. P. Morgan

#37. You are master of what you say until you utter it, once you deliver it, you are its captive. Preserve your tongue as you do your gold and money. One word could bring disgrace and the termination of a bliss.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

#38. New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.

Orrin Woodward

#39. 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

#40. I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.
- Coloured Money

Mervyn Peake

#41. There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.

Milton Friedman

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

Will Hobbs

#43. Luckily, Dixie, Ernie, and the two girls, Sissy and Mary Ann, all loved his money. Money was power, no question about it. Sanders remembered how his father used to recite the Golden Rule - he who has the gold makes the rules. And Sanders had the gold. The power. The control. And

Harlan Coben

#44. The Gentiles used to say about us: the diploma - that's the Jews' religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma.

Amos Oz

#45. There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Bernard De Mandeville

#46. Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

Paul Krugman

#47. The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.

A.J. Darkholme

#48. The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

Hans F. Sennholz

#49. We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history.

John Exter

#50. People always think you have a lot of money when they see you on TV.

Judy Gold

#51. In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.

Nicholas Deak

#52. A gold cage is still a cage.
-King David I
Oh, go cry in a bag of money.
-Queen Christina

MaryJanice Davidson

#53. For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#54. The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

Abraham Lincoln

#55. People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.

Eli Broad

#56. Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

Murray Rothbard

#57. It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People love to wear it, show it off, roll with it. For me, I just find it disgusting.

Jamie Lidell

#58. Currency peg can mean higher volatility in short-term interest rates, as the central bank seeks to keep the price of its money steady in terms of the peg. It can mean deflation, if the supply of the peg is constrained (as the supply of gold was relative to the demand for it in the 1870s and 1880s).

Niall Ferguson

#59. After all, what is money apart from what it can buy?

Plautus

#60. To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

Honore De Balzac

#61. The earth yields up her stores, of every ill
The instigators; iron, foe to man,
And gold, than iron deadlier.

Ovid

#62. If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.

Jacque Fresco

#63. The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record of responsible paper money management ... The record taken, as a whole is one of hyperinflation, devaluation and monetary chaos.

Henry Hazlitt

#64. Gold and silver are always in demand, regardless of clime, century, or government in power. But public confidence in and, hence, demand for paper money depends on the ultimate confidence - or lack thereof - of the public in the viability of the issuing government.

Murray Rothbard

#65. I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.

LL Cool J

#66. Most credit cards provide some sort of protection against a defective purchase, and with gold or platinum cards, you'll often get double the manufacturer's warranty. You're also not immediately out your own money if something goes wrong.

Jean Chatzky

#67. And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

Thomas Merton

#68. If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.

Uday Kotak

#69. Absolute money (gold) makes limited-states and localized-wars (Pre-1913); Substitute money (fiat) makes Absolute States & Wars (Post-1913)

Orrin Woodward

#70. As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.

Jonathan Gold

#71. While this might seem a bit abstract, these numbers are not arbitrary. They are symbols, which represent pieces of paper, which represent pieces of gold. Gold doesn't represent anything; its value is inherent in its glitter.

Colin MacLaughlin

#72. Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?

Richard Thaler

#73. It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

Donald Miller

#74. Myth: USDollar is money. Fact: Gold & Silver are money. USDollar is legal tender/debt brought down to low parcels for spending purposes.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#75. The reason gold-diggers trivialize
relationships is because they do not know love,they only know money.

Moffat Machingura

#76. I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

Big Sean

#77. Ernestine used to remark, in a tone tinged with envy, that Lill was probably New Jersey's youngest gold digger, and that few adult gold diggers ever had received more, in return for less.

Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

#78. Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When they were minted into coins of equal weight in order to make trade easier and smoother. But it was when coinage first made its appearance in Athens that it truly flourished.

Michael Maloney

#79. And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

Christina Stead

#80. You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what it means to be strong.

S.R. Crawford

#81. That I might live alone once with my gold!
O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
That which makes all men false, is true itself.

Ben Jonson

#82. Every civilization has had a form of currency, usually silver and gold, that is controlled by the rulers and kings of that society. The people in power remain in power by controlling the circulation of money. It is no different today than it was thousands of years ago.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#83. Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.

Mike Belkin

#84. Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.

Ludwig Von Mises

#85. Now, not every blog post or 'Top 10 Ways to Make Money on the Internet' piece deserves to live forever. But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#86. Fight, fight, fight and get that money, money, money. 'Cause happiness can't buy even a nickel.

Ari Gold

#87. She said, 'You know that I love you.' And, despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold.

Neil Gaiman

#88. The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

Richard Ebeling

#89. Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.

Murray Rothbard

#90. It was Saturday night and I was feelin kinda funny,
Gold around my neck, pockets full of money.

Schoolly D

#91. A real woman doesn't help u spend your money she helps u to make more money

Blanco Vandam

#92. 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

#93. It is not real estate, gold, stocks, hard work, or money that makes you rich; it is what you know about real estate, gold, stocks, hard work, and money that makes you rich. Ultimately, it is your financial intelligence that makes you rich.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#94. Dwarfs are very attached to gold. Any highwayman demanding 'Your money or your life' had better bring a folding chair and packed lunch and a book to read while the debate goes on.

Terry Pratchett

#95. The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.

Anthony Liccione

#96. Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue ... Political control weakens individual self-reliance and energy, causes want and poverty and, in the end, breeds tyranny and oppression.

Hans F. Sennholz

#97. I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

Evgeni Plushenko

#98. I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"

Gold Panda

#99. Rainbows would never spring from a crock full of credit cards or computer printouts.

Carrie Anne Noble

#100. I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.

Murray Rothbard