All time Quote by Adam Smith

capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the…

— Millicent Fawcett

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income…

— Henry George

Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part…

— Ludwig von Mises

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

— Karl Marx

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many bringing a…

— David Kim

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Capitalism distinguishes ‘capital’ from mere ‘wealth’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means…

— William Graham Sumner

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

— Karl Marx

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

— Thomas Piketty

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

— Henry Ford