Precious Metals Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil…
— James Buchan
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By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled…
— Herman Melville
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We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more…
— Seneca the Younger
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Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of…
— Elgin Groseclose
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The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after…
— David Harvey
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If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.
— Henry Hazlitt
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In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead…
— Henry Hazlitt
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As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
— Henry David Thoreau
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When I finally had the chance to make my childhood dream a reality - as a co-founder and chairman of Moon Express - my goal…
— Naveen Jain
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Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.
— Enrique Pena Nieto
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I have argued again and again that investors should hold some assets in precious metals as an alternative to cash. One of the functions of…
— Marc Faber
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Material bullshit comes and will always go, not anything to be taken by, a trick for the eyes that's only for show. Precious metals aren't…
— Tom Sid
Who Wrote These Precious Metals Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Precious Metals Quotes as follows: