Capital Quotes

1029 Capital quotes by 716 unique authors

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the… — George Bernard Shaw
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society. — Peter Drucker
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations. — Susan Jacoby
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible… — Ben Bernanke
The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows. — Janine Benyus
Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom… — Anne Roiphe
No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort,… — Orison Swett Marden
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments.… — Fred Wilson
Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market… — Fred Wilson
Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. — Fred Wilson
Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in. — Henry Paulson
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for… — Amity Shlaes
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about… — John McWhorter
I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital. — Jacqueline Novogratz
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund. — Jacqueline Novogratz
Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where… — Mary Schapiro
In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money… — Carl Icahn
The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be… — Judith Rodin
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The… — Teju Cole
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had… — William Gibson
When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and… — Janet Yellen
In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a… — Bjork
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I… — Bjork
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital. — Bobby Seale

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