“You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.” GivingLooksImportantEndsValuesFlowGoldThe End Of The DayCashDividendsIntrinsic ValueCash FlowAnd At The End Of The Day Author:Michael Lee-Chin
“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.” GivingHumansLittlesLongHas BeensRealMightBeautifulTurnsWaterImaginationHuman BeingsFireAirRocksShapesEssentialsElementsAngelGoldWingsTongueSubstanceDemonGraySubmitAgain And AgainPearlsMight Have BeenClayLuminousStrawsPebblesSpunThin AirAngel Wings Book:The Man on the Ceiling Source: The Man on the Ceiling
“Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.” ThinkingGivingGoldConsumerismGeeseOverconsumption Book:Aesop's fables Source: Aesop's fables
“There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away.” GivingArtDifferentGoneGoldFactorsDifferent ThingsCelebrationGreat WorkPhoenixGone Away Author:Jeff Daniels
“Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.” GivingCertainAirGoldAffairMiserableCharming Author:Moliere
“Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.” MenGivingDoneEarthPoorRichHumorousGoldPrisonMetalsDistributionScarceRich ManPoor Man Author:Mike Harding