Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.

Gold and Silver

Now, Gold and Silver contribute very little in their own nature to our Lives, for which all Earthly Things seem to have been created. Yet Men, as if they would make Nature asham'd of this, have agreed to make those Metals of equal vaue to all other things, to make 'em the Price and Measrue of all, and the Instruments of changing and exchanging whatever can be found good in this World.

The Practice of most Trading Nations confirms, that Paper is more Qualified for the Use of Money, than Silver; providing it have a Value

Silver being capable of a Stamp, Princes, for the greater Convenience of the People, set up Mints to bring it to a Standard, and Stamp it; Whereby its Weight and Fineness was known, without the Trouble of Weighing or Fyning; but the Stamp added nothing to the Value

There's nothing as real as money.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

By the experience of commercial nations in all ages it has been found that gold and silver afford the only safe foundation for a monetary system.

Gold is power Aurum est Potestas

I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper.

If you take the MY out of money, you're left with ONE.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

All money is a matter of belief.

Money: power at its most liquid.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

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