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

Gold and Silver

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith.

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

Gold has been found in paying quantities.

Gold is power Aurum est Potestas

Gold is special, and what makes it special is thousands of years of people wanting it..

Gold has worked for thousands of years, but now with the Internet, it works even better.

Gold is hoarded. It's estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

Historically, gold has always been a safe haven against inflation and a safe haven in times of political instability.

Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.

It's amazing how fast gold works.

Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies backed by nothing, it is equally fair to say that gold is a faith-based metal. It pays no dividend, cannot be eaten, and is mostly used for nothing more useful than jewelry. I would say that anything of which 75% sits idly and expensively in bank vaults is, as a measure of value, only one step up from the Polynesian islands that attached value to certain well-known large rocks that were traded.

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

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

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

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.

Gold actually has properties - you can use gold for all sorts of things. People value gold for the metal. Nobody values bitcoin for the bitcoin; they value it because they believe that they can exchange it for something else.