Quotes About Capital

Given a good pitch and the right amount of capital, any educated person ought to be able to make a small secure living out of a bookshop

The economy of many countries was allowed to stagnate, land went out of cultivation, capital equipment was not added to, great blocks of the population were prevented from working and kept half alive by State charity.

His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops:

See? You can have cartoons about any of the parties, but you mustn't put anything in favor of Socialism, because the police won't stand it. Once I did a cartoon of a boa constrictor marked Capital swallowing a rabbit marked Labour. The copper came along and saw it, and he says, 'You rub that out, and look sharp about it,' he says. I had to rub it out.

The Third Cure — Make Thy Gold Multiply

EL PRIMER PRINCIPIO SABIO DE INVERSION ES SEGURIDAD PARA TU CAPITAL. ¿ES SABIO DEJARSE PERSUADIR POR GANANCIAS MAYORES CUANDO HAY POSIBILIDAD DE QUE TU PRINCIPAL SE PIERDA? YO DIGO QUE NO. LA PENALIDAD DEL RIESGO ES PÉRDIDA PROBABLE. ESTUDIA CUIDADOSAMENTE ANTES DE SEPARARTE DE TU TESORO EN CADA OPORTUNIDAD, HASTA TENER LA SEGURIDAD DE QUE SEGURAMENTE LO PODRÁS RECUPERAR. NO TE DEJES ENGAÑAR POR TUS PROPIOS DESEOS ROMÁNTICOS DE ADQUIRIR RIQUEZA RÁPIDAMENTE.

Moreover, stable prices foster saving and capital formation, because when the risk of erosion of asset values resulting from inflation—and the need to guard against such losses—are minimized, households are encouraged to save more and businesses are encouraged to invest more. (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 2009)

Fortuna se ha convertido en «fortuna», en el sentido del contador y del banquero.

TARP] The strategy was a breakthrough intervention in the free market.

America should be about owning a piece of the rock, about letting every worker have equity and share in the returns to capital.

Of all the thankless jobs that economists set for themselves when it comes to educating people about economics, the notion that society is better off if some industries are allowed to wither, their workers lose their jobs, and investors lose their capital - all in the name of the greater glory of globalization - surely ranks near the top.

Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.

I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

The thing that the Internet does is it allows labor to move freely across borders in the way that capital does but, traditionally, labor cannot. So the Internet frees workers to be based anywhere and work for employers anywhere.

The ability to immediately deduct the costs of capital investments will help employers improve worker productivity and output - which grows Main Street jobs. And with these savings, businesses across the country will have more freedom to grow, hire new workers, and increase wages.

Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

Capital structure isn't an eyeshade economic thing: It's about your ability to protect your workforce and your service levels.

As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.

I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.

When the financial system works as it should, money and capital flow to and from households and businesses to pay for home loans, school loans, and investments to create jobs.

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

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 contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.

If we look at the past two centuries of economic history in Europe and the United States, we see an astounding pattern. Capital will accumulate in a tiny portion of the population, no matter what we do.