Change Quote by Jean-Baptiste Say

Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands,…

— Eric Kierans

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

— William Feather

“The ability of individuals to extract wealth from society by profiting from land also leads to cultural degeneration and a loss of social cohesion…

— Martin Adams

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

— Jean-Baptiste Say

But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.

— John Maynard Keynes

Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part…

— Ludwig von Mises

Drying up of capital has different consequences in different environments.

— Naveen Tewari

People are very focused on value and preservation of capital. They're a lot less risk-prone than they used to be.

— Sergio Marchionne

owning capital is not a productive activity.

— Joan Robinson

In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has…

— James Surowiecki

“The generic concept of capital without which economists cannot do their work has no measurable counterpart among material objects; it reflects the entrepreneurial appraisal…

— Ludwig Lachmann

capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the…

— Millicent Fawcett