Capital Quotes

1029 Capital quotes by 716 unique authors

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of… — Clayton Christensen
To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital gains tax rate. We would be better served by a regressive… — Clayton Christensen
Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education. — Clayton Christensen
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for… — David Blunkett
To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those… — David Blunkett
Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love… — Mireille Mathieu
Capital is kind of a banking concept. — Paul Singer
Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it… — Paul Singer
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time. — Mo Ibrahim
You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization… — Peter Senge
I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. — Corey Reynolds
Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future. — Thomas Piketty
I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different… — Thomas Piketty
At least in cities where the Confederate Army established a base of operations, young women were overwhelmed by the number of prospective suitors. Thousands of… — Karen Abbott
Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly… — Lynn Jurich
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them. — David Sze
There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much… — Dan Levitan
There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry. — William E. Conway, Jr.
If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring… — Douglas Leone
What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of… — Stephen Pagliuca
Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting,… — Barry Ritholtz
Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has. — Bill Gurley
Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job… — N. Robert Hammer
What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a… — Warren Stephens
Charitable involvement, social impact, and global responsibility have always been important at Bain Capital. — Joshua Bekenstein

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