Capital Quotes

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. (Paul Valéry)
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Capital is dead labor,that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. View quote
Karl Marx
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
A woman's health is her capital. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. View quote
Daniel Webster
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Stupidity is always a capital crime. View quote
Larry Niven
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever. View quote
Benjamin Netanyahu
Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. View quote
Karl Marx
Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. View quote
Adam Smith
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever. View quote
Yitzhak Shamir
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. View quote
Gary Becker
Investment in human capital accounts for most of the impressive rise in the real earnings per worker. (Theodore Schultz)
Human beings are incontestably capital from an abstract and mathematical point of view. View quote
Theodore Schultz
The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed. View quote
William Stanley Jevons