Precious Metals Quotes

16 quotes by 14 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious. — Henry Hazlitt
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future. — Enrique Pena Nieto
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Precious Metals Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 2 Precious Metals Quotes by Henry Hazlitt
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by James Buchan
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by Alexander Hamilton
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by Herman Melville
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by Seneca the Younger
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by John Maynard Keynes
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by Elgin Groseclose
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by David Harvey
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by Naveen Jain
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by Enrique Pena Nieto
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by Marc Faber
• 1 Precious Metals Quote by Tom Sid