• He is gold-obsessed and hatches a plan to detonate a nuclear bomb in Ft. Knox to destabilize the U.S. gold market, thereby significantly increasing the net worth of his own gold billion stockpiles.

• Bond seduces PussyGalore, who betrays Goldfinger and removes the deadly gas from her plane squadron
• Bond gets out of his handcuffs and kills Oddjob
• Bond defuses the bomb

• Oddjob
• Kisch

• Bond: Do you expect me to talk?

Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!

• "This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life I've admired its color, its brilliance, its divine heaviness. I welcome any enterprise that will increase my stock... which is considerable."

• "As my friends say in Chicago, 'Once is happinstance, twice coincidence, but thrice is enemy action!'"

• "Choose your next witticism carefully, Mr Bond. It may be your last."

• "You will be there to see it for yourself. A little too close for comfort, I'm afraid."

• "Many people have tried to involve themselves in my affairs. Unsuccessfully."

• "Please excuse me, Mr. Bond, but I must arrange to have my gold separated from the late Mr. Solo."

• Bond (after witnessing Oddjob decapitate a nearby statue) : "Remarkable. But what does the club secretary have to say?"
Goldfinger: "Oh, nothing, Mr. Bond. I own the club."