Hva er det med dette skinnende metallet som har fasinert mennesker i tusenvis av år? Gull har blitt brukt som penger de siste 5.000 år. Selv før den tid var gull ettertraktet, først og fremst som et statussymbol og tegn på rikdom.
Det er mange kjente sitater om gull på tvers av forskjellige tider og kulturer rundt om i verden. Vi har samlet 29 sitater om gull som forteller historien om gull som statussymbol, som penger, og som fundament for menneskelig frihet og blomstrende samfunn.
Inspirerende sitater om gull
"The desire for gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.”
—Norm Franz
"There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence"
—Charles de Gaulle (president i Frankrike fra 1958 - 1969)
"If you don’t own gold, you know neither history nor economics."
—Ray Dalio (hedge fond-forvalter)
“Like liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued.”
—John S. Morrill
“A US dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's not backed by gold or silver. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything.”
—P. J. O'Rourke
Gold is valuable everywhere in the world and is not dependent on political systems, any specific government policy, or set of policies.”
—Roy Sebag
“O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.”
—Lord Byron
“Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.”
—Antony C. Sutton
Get gold, humanely if possible, but at all hazards - get gold.
—Kong Ferdinand av Spania (fra det 16. århundre)
Ordtak om gull gjennom historien
"The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules."
—Anonym
"Where gold speaks, every tongue is silent."
—Italiensk ordtak
“If you are sick, think about your life; if you are better, think about your gold.”
—Mongolsk ordtak
“Real gold is not afraid of the melting pot.”
—Kinesisk ordtak
"Where gold speaks, every tongue is silent."
—Italiensk ordtak
Gull og penger
"Gold is money. Everything else is credit."
—JP Morgan (bankier og finansmann)
"Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money by nature is gold and silver."
—Karl Marx (forfatter av Det Kommunistiske Manifest)
"We have gold because we cannot trust governments."
—Herbert Hoover (president i USA fra 1929 - 1933)
"Because gold is honest money, it is disliked by dishonest men."
—Ron Paul
“I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.”
—Murray Rothbard
“Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.”
—Gary North
“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 money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper.”
—Hans F. Sennholz
“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.”
—Alan Greenspan (sentralbanksjef i USA fra 1986 - 2006)
Gullstandarden
"The superiority of the Gold Standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions."
—Ludwig von Mises
"In the absence of the Gold Standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."
—Alan Greenspan
"A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development."
—Milton Friedman
“With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.”
—F.A. Hayek
The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
—Ludwig von Mises
"[I]f the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.' The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy."
—Paul Volcker (sentralbanksjef i USA fra 1979 - 1987)