Capital Quotes

1029 Capital quotes by 716 unique authors

I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the… — Chris Corrigan
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder… — Jeffrey Sachs
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny
The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a… — Felix Dennis
It is what you are inside that matter. You, yourself, are your only real capital. — Vladimir K. Zworykin
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. — Antoine Rivarol
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken
The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have… — Ludwig von Mises
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who… — Ludwig von Mises
Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most… — T. Harv Eker
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of… — Charles Babbage
Basic scientific research is scientific capital. — Vannevar Bush
I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not… — Abraham Lincoln
The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people… — Andrew Carnegie
In the four decades of philanthropy that have paralleled my business career, I've found that the same principles apply whether you're providing access to capital… — Michael Milken
Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on… — Andrew Carnegie
We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. — Irving Fisher
If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by… — David Ricardo
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the… — Unknown Author
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the… — C. Wright Mills
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes… — Warren Buffett
Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not… — Amory Lovins
The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be… — Menachem Begin

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