Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gold has been found in paying quantities.

Gold is power Aurum est Potestas

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

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

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

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

The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper money (of whose value, as noted, they are right to be fearful). Gold, however, has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. True, gold has some industrial and decorative utility, but the demand for these purposes is both limited and incapable of soaking up new production. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end.

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.

Property is desirable, is a positive good in the world.

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.

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

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.