Quotes About Capital

Pyongyang possesses thousands of artillery pieces 30 miles from Seoul. Just one retaliatory salvo could decimate South Korea's capital.

Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.

I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

I don't want to go back to Capital Radio. I don't want to go back to rolling in custard with Sheena Easton and Annie Lennox.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

As long-term business builders, we invest our permanent capital and deploy management skills in support of talented leaders and companies with global potential.

Capital will follow where great talents go.

It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.

Money talks. When you have the financing behind you, you can make deals.

Money talks; there's no question about it.

Oklahoma is the Bad Food Capital of the World, and Oklahoma City is as cheery as an opened casket. No one reads in that city, and bookstores are even rarer there than atheists.

Contrary to popular belief, Hollywood's good weather had little to do with its establishment as the movie capital of the United States. It was chosen not because of its warm climate but primarily because it lay within easy reach of the Mexican border.

Though part of the puzzle is obviously capital budget allocations, most companies seem to have a much higher awareness of the rules by which capital and assets are allocated than they do about how skilled people should be spending their time.

Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

conserving capital and insuring the welfare of children—the two basic societal functions for marriage everywhere

no better way to improve breed. Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Capital itself is simply the useful residue of the work of past laborers, and it could belong to everyone as well as to a few.

capital, having considerably more liquidity than water, slid

I prefer to call it fiscal decapitation.