Activity Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far…

— Adam Smith

“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 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

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

— Alfred Marshall

The important desideratum is freedom of the market; a country or region will often best develop, depending on conditions of resources or the market,…

— Murray Rothbard

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

It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

— John Maynard Keynes

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth…

— Ludwig von Mises

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not…

— Frederick Douglass

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…

— Thomas Malthus

“Capitalism distinguishes ‘capital’ from mere ‘wealth’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari