I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on ‘this is what I want to do’.
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
I don’t know where my first gold medal is.
Bitcoins are like gold bars with wings. That is why I, and so many others, view bitcoin and its network as gold 2.0.
The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of ‘Oppression Olympics.’ Gold medal goes to the most offended.
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
You’ll never find your gold on a sandy beach.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
The ability to manage large assets well – it’s like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it’s what you aspire to.
It’s kind of like I won a gold medal with my family.
People think the gold medal is yours and they say you’re going to win – but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren’t doing it negatively – they’re mostly lovely and they really do want you to win – but they don’t understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
Since I first signed with AMI’s Weider Publications in 2005, everything has turned to gold.
I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business – tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
He who has the gold makes the rules.
Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.
The active and abandoned tailings ponds I have photographed, for example, are strangely beautiful – yet they are also chock full of cyanide, which is used in the recovery of microscopic particles of gold from the waste tailings of copper mines.
