Bars Quote by Anonymous

The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold

— Martin Truex Jr

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

— John Maynard Keynes

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…

— Hans F. Sennholz

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took…

— Carl Andre

The authorities in the United States confiscated private gold holdings in the Depression of the 1930's. They may seek to do so again in…

— James Dale Davidson

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…

— Jeremy Grantham

“In fact, even today coins and banknotes are a rare form of money. The sum total of money in the world is about $60…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“From the beginning, Satoshi envisioned a digital analog to old-fashioned gold: a new kind of universal money that could be owned by everyone and…

— Nathaniel Popper

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

— John Paulson

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Erik argued that it was the very virtual nature of Bitcoin that made it so valuable. Unlike gold, it could be easily and quickly…

— Nathaniel Popper

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte