Consumption Quote by David Ricardo

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

— Anonymous

capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to…

— Thomas Malthus

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

— Thomas Piketty

“In no case does the energy required for synthesis appear to be provided by an influx of fresh capital, but by expenditure.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“In the long run, the capital/income ratio adjusts to the savings rate and structural growth rate of the economy rather than the other way…

— Thomas Piketty

Drying up of capital has different consequences in different environments.

— Naveen Tewari

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

— Daniel Webster

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

— Henry Ford

Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

— William Feather

A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.

— Maxime Bernier