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 don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.
Despite all the silver of Diana and Mercury, their images will be found on the lake. For the sculptor looking for new clay, he and his people will be flooded with gold.
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it
The fact is I don't even have one cent of savings abroad, don't have accounts at foreign banks, don't have deposits abroad and don't even have any shares in foreign firms, much less hundreds of billions of dollars.
Never let no one know how much dough you hold.
A very small proportion of the country's black money is in the movie industry. Because we are written about, public attention is focused on us. Do you think there is no black money in other businesses? With the exception of government servants and others who have tax deducted at source, there are tax evaders in every walk of life.
There's something fundamentally grubby about the rich paying people to seek out cracks in the system to hide their money.
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them.
When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.
The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.
Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.
There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.
With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.
Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?
I have always been comfortable that no one has been able to assess what I really have.
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
