Investing Quote by Ludwig Lachmann

I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my…

— James K. Galbraith

“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

There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.

— Thomas Piketty

Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and…

— Amory Lovins

“The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation. First the capital evaporates, and…

— Joseph Conrad

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

We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.

— William Howard Taft

“We who live in capitalist countries tend to take all of this—property rights, free-market pricing, entrepreneurship—for granted, but every socialist country that has ever…

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

— James Grant

The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital…

— Louis O. Kelso

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

— John Maynard Keynes

“It is ironic that Keynesianism originated as a weapon to combat depression, but became universally accepted and "successful" only during (and because of!) the…

— André Gunder Frank