Community Quote by William Feather

capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

owning capital is not a productive activity.

— Joan Robinson

Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively…

— Andrew Carnegie

Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not…

— Sam Graves

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 must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

— Walter Bagehot

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

If capital produces most of the economy's wealth and income is distributed on the basis of productive input, the individual can hardly reach his…

— Louis O. Kelso

“Capital requires the separation of the worker from the means of production and subsistence”

— Peter Linebaugh

Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

An efficient economy does not perpetuate the misallocation of capital - it punishes it.

— Barry Gardiner