Blue Quote by Peter Lynch

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

— Mark Twain

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't…

— Andrew Carnegie

Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people…

— Charlie Munger

Gold laboreth diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field.

— The Richest Man In Babylon

“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual…

— Pete Hamill

I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people…

— Charlie Munger

The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird…

— Bill Haywood

It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid…

— Murray Rothbard

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into…

— Karl Marx

You'd rather own gold; not the miner

— Kevin O'Leary

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Some miners’ wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush from this one to the Klondike,…

— John McPhee