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Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

— David F. Swensen

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

— Noam Chomsky

The really basic stuff that fuels 30-year job booms almost always comes from government research, stuff like biotech, the transistor, the Internet. The idea…

— Glenn Kelman

At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way,…

— Bill Gates

We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for…

— Mao Zedong

Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new investment even…

— Robert P. Murphy

Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.

— Henry Paulson

When the telecoms system in the U.K. was made to compete and to seek private capital, many worried that the service would get worse…

— John Redwood

The reason for looking at a public listing instead of private capital is that I have always enjoyed running a public limited company.

— Ashok Soota

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of…

— Thomas Frank

We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in the next…

— Van Jones

In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process…

— Michael Parenti