Consumed Quote by Ludwig von Mises

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for…

— Frederic Bastiat

The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control…

— Rudolf Hiferding

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

If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available and thereby…

— Ludwig von Mises

“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

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Thomas Piketty

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

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

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

— Karl Marx

We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.

— William Howard Taft

The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are…

— Clayton M. Christensen