Demand Quote by Thomas Malthus

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

Need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

— Henry Hazlitt

Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand.…

— Henry Hazlitt

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

— Henry Ford

The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.

— David Harvey

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

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

Increased business sales would almost certainly raise the productive capacity of the economy by encouraging additional capital spending, especially if accompanied by reduced uncertainty…

— Janet Yellen

Companies that raise capital do it on the basis of past performance and unique competencies of the business. We cannot raise capital if we…

— Ritesh Agarwal

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would…

— Adam Smith

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

— David Ricardo

Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.

— William Stanley Jevons