Capital Quotes
1029 Capital quotes by 716 unique authors
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If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be…
— Russell Kirk
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The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to…
— Ernst Junger
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At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your…
— Sarah Hall
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Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.
— Walter Wriston
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I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse,…
— James MacArthur
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The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth,…
— Toshihiko Fukui
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Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison…
— Peter Kropotkin
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We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or…
— Donella Meadows
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Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well…
— Norm Dicks
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I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent…
— Warren Buffett
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Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.
— Brian Tracy
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And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
— John B. S. Haldane
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And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.
— Henry Kravis
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Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business,…
— Warren Buffett
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As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.
— Warren Buffett
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It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the…
— Virginia Woolf
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If you don't go to Broadway, you're a fool. On Broadway, off Broadway, above Broadway, below Broadway, go! Don't tell me there isn't something wonderful…
— Joan Rivers
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Today, Paris is the capital of the world.
— Francois Hollande
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And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills…
— George Will
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I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe…
— Ronald Reagan
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
— Ludwig von Mises
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That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
— Noam Chomsky
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