Capital Quotes

1029 Capital quotes by 716 unique authors

If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have.… — Brigham Young
These guys from the nation's capital - now they do a lot of thinking. Referring to boxers from D.C., not politicians. — George Foreman
One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that are going to… — Malcolm Turnbull
We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world. — John W. Snow
Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge. — Albert Pierrepoint
Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital… — Vladimir Lenin
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed. — Vladimir Lenin
Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites — Yasser Arafat
Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a… — Irving Kahn
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If… — Irving Kahn
As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets. — Euvin Naidoo
The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy… — Jamie Dimon
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against… — Charles Caleb Colton
THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Capital dictates the fate of humanity. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital ,… — Karl Marx
A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of… — Karl Marx
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as… — Karl Marx
The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies… — Karl Marx
Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as… — Karl Marx
A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this… — Karl Marx
The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he… — Karl Marx
An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less… — Karl Marx

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