The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr Copy Share Image
With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage ,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image