Capital Quote by Barry Gardiner

owning capital is not a productive activity.

— Joan Robinson

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

— William Feather

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.

— John Maynard Keynes

capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.

— Paul Ormerod

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.

— Maxime Bernier

Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.

— Muhtar Kent

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One cannot have economic growth without security.

— John Bruton

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

— David Ricardo