Amount Quote by Adam Smith

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may…

— David Ricardo

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force,…

— Henry George

Human labor cannot compete with fixed capital - that's just a fact.

— Ash Sarkar

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

— Alfred Marshall

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for…

— Frederic Bastiat

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not…

— Abraham Lincoln

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create…

— Louis O. Kelso

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

There will always be a capital shortage from the perspective of entrepreneurs.

— David Cohen

As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.

— Karl Marx

Jobs are created by businesses, especially small and mid-sized businesses.

— Charlie Dent