Capitalist Quote by William Graham Sumner

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will…

— Leland Stanford

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not…

— Abraham Lincoln

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they…

— William Cowper Brann

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force,…

— Henry George

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— Peter Linebaugh

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

— Abraham Lincoln

Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and…

— Louis O. Kelso

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what…

— Anonymous

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that…

— Karl Marx

“Capitalism distinguishes ‘capital’ from mere ‘wealth’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari