Capital Quotes - page 3

These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world. (Alain de Botton)
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime-for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold. View quote
Marquis de Sade
From here, our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. View quote
Mahmoud Abbas
The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever. View quote
Menachem Begin
Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or less alarming to persons unaccustomed to the operations of industry; whereas, on the contrary, landed property produces without any change of either quality or position. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. (Alfred Marshall)
The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings. View quote
Alfred Marshall
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the domination of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun; in which the partition of all the territories of the globe among the great capitalist powers has been completed. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal. View quote
André Malraux
There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption. View quote
David Ricardo
The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated. View quote
David Ricardo
If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm. View quote
David Ricardo
The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves. View quote
David Ricardo
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. View quote
David Ricardo
for price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid. (David Ricardo)
Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category. View quote
Ernest Gellner
The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social! View quote
Jean Baudrillard
Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be! View quote
Louisa May Alcott
THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith