Thomas Kaplan Quotes

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.

Nobody at CNBC owns gold. Nobody at Bloomberg owns gold. Gold is being constantly talked down by the media, and Fed officials, and economists, who also don't own any gold. They're all stocked up in equities.

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

If you trade in paper, the notion of many who trade gold - the Ayn Randers - if the financial world comes to an end, they're going to have the gold. If you're playing in ETFs, you're going to have a piece of paper.

Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.

Start buying gold now, regardless of the price. By acting now, you will not have to react when it's too late. Too late will be when the majority of the public finally figures out what is happening to paper money and frantically tries to get aboard. Remember, if you're one of the ones holding paper in the end, you will have given away your products and services for nothing.

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

You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate [on the Stock Market]: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

It's actually a pretty basic concept: when businesses feel secure and confident, they are more likely to grow, hire, and invest. Conversely, when the economy is unstable, businesses often become much more risk averse, and in many cases, they're forced to make undesirable cuts that affect their bottom line.

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

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

If the world does well, gold will be fine. If the world doesn't do well, gold will also do fine... but a lot of other things could collapse.

I don't rely on off-shore tax havens, and I don't want to invest in stocks and shares as we have seen how volatile that game has been since the financial crash.

As the property market is very steep right now I think people should invest their capital in a mix of equity and debt instruments, through reputed mutual funds and maybe some in gold and silver. Regular savings are very very important.

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.

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.

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

For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.

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.

I don’t care a damn about stocks and bonds, but I don’t want to see them go down the first day I am President.

Gold and silver afford the only safe foundation for a monetary system.