"Long term, Gold maintains its purchasing power. It's a fantastic (the best?) inter-generational wealth preserver."
The response to that taken from somewhere in the internet.
"The lesson in that message is that Gold doesn't lose value, but the flip side of that coin is that also Gold doesn't gain value. Keep the second half of that in memory when you pour your fortune into gold.
Wealth creation comes from "Risk". If you don't risk your wealth to grow it, it will never grow, and you'll be stuck in the exact same socioeconomic class 20 yrs from now as you are currently in."