Capital Quote by William Graham Sumner Download Open image “The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.” — William Graham Sumner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capital Development Great Lack
The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
What is lacking to the underdeveloped nations is not knowledge, but capital. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to… — William Weld Copy Share Image
The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state.… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Global capital is agnostic - it has no loyalties. There's an overhang of capital in the U.S., and the key is yield pickup. What… — Euvin Naidoo Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Can anyone imagine that the masterfulness, the overbearing disposition, the greed of gain, and the ruthlessness in methods, which are the faults of the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is… — Warren Stephens Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
Content that's generated out of America, whether it be film or music, has, in my opinion, much greater impact in sustaining our credibility and… — Lyor Cohen Copy Share Image
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Mumbai and Gujarat are the two places that can be termed as the capital of theatre. — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a… — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know? — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image