Quotes About Capital

there are two fundamentally different kinds of wealth:

up until 1913, most wealth was reinvestment wealth.

the systemic effect of the relationship between productive wealth and reinvestment wealth.

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.

The tax on capital gains in Canada is twice as high as in communist China and we wonder why our ideas are being held back.

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

Capital was always the struggle. I always had these amazing visions. Had this amazing work ethic. Had this amazing work partner in my wife. But I was always struggling for capital. I owe a lot to local banks who were willing to take chances on Jo and I early in our career.

Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.

What was once a fringe idea - finding a way to use the record levels of overseas capital to finance new projects in the United States - is now mainstream. The support is there; we just have to work out the details.

The story started over a decade ago when I ran Hermitage Capital Management, the largest investment firm in Russia. I was very successful, but when I started to complain publicly about corruption at the companies in which my fund invested, President Vladimir Putin had me expelled from the country and declared a threat to national security.

For newspapers to continue to play an important role in civic engagement, they need more access to capital. Their decline has created a real threat to independent reporting at the state and local level.

Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

Most entrepreneurs think that insufficient capital goes against them. You die due to indigestion, not due to hunger. Necessity is the mother of invention.

The chakra of creating scalable business or growing in once own career is simple yet under rated: 1. Skills and education 2. Experience & subject matter expertise 3. Mentor ship & guidance 4. Use of capital 5. Use of technology 6. Use of marketing 7. Networking & relationship

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

If they come back it's a night we'll remember for a long time. But that's a capital if.

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.