Employed Quote by 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

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

— Walter Bagehot

owning capital is not a productive activity.

— Joan Robinson

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, 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

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

— Pope Leo I

It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is…

— Prince Charles

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

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or…

— Joseph Hume

An efficient economy does not perpetuate the misallocation of capital - it punishes it.

— Barry Gardiner

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

— Vandana Shiva

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

— Daniel Webster