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Quotes About Capital

Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital.
~ Marsha Blackburn
Having more customers means nothing if America's small businesses cannot obtain the required capital to support their exports in the competitive international markets.
~ Charles Boustany
Most small businesses in this country today are taxed at the individual level as Corporation LLC. So whatever is cut out of those earnings is money taken out of capital for reinvestment for creating more jobs and opening up more locations.
~ John Fleming
If you look at some of the smaller capital markets in Asia, when they want funding, they either come here to Hong Kong or they go to California, the mecca of the Internet, because they can capture the liquidity and then move on and do what they want to do, which is develop a business.
~ Richard Li
It always seemed mad to me that people who have common investment objectives, let alone are related to each other, should take their capital and allow it to be less efficient by breaking it up into smaller bits.
~ Mark Getty
ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies.
~ Adam Lashinsky
Only people have incomes and they derive them through the market from the resources they own, whether these be in the form of corporate stock, or of bonds, or of land, or of their personal capacity.
~ Milton Friedman
A computer expert with the ability to create a one 100 million dollar empire in his mind could walk up to customs in New York with only the clothes on his back and say: nothing to declare. He could walk into this country or any country with 100 million dollars worth of value between his ears and in terms of capital or goods have nothing to declare
~ Brian Tracy
The implications are simple. If past prices contain little or no useful information for predicting future prices, there is no point in following technical trading rules. A simple policy of buying and holding will be at least as good as any technical procedure. Moreover, buying and selling, to the extent that it is profitable, tends to generate taxable capital gains.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Marx's once scandalous thesis that governments are simple business agents for international capital is today an obvious fact
~ Terry Eagleton
A banker ? Me ? Yes, Mr. Lipwig. But I don't know anything about running a bank! Good. No preconceived ideas. I've robbed banks! Capital! Just reverse your thinking, said Lord Vetinari, beaming. The money should be on the inside .
~ Terry Pratchett
The Arrangement was very simple, so simple in fact that it didn't really deserve the capital letter, which it had got for simply being in existence for so long.
~ Terry Pratchett
Lord Downey was an assassin. Or, rather, an Assassin. The capital letter was important. It separated those curs who went around murdering people for money from the gentlemen who were occasionally consulted by other gentlemen who wished to have removed, for a consideration, any inconvenient razor blades from the candyfloss of life
~ Terry Pratchett
No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that they would a case where the results of their decision would be less important.
~ Lysander Spooner
That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.
~ Steve King
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
~ Leland Stanford
The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.
~ John Thorn
Human labor cannot compete with fixed capital - that's just a fact.
~ Ash Sarkar
Despite Labour's achievements in government, we were too often seen as champions for global capital markets, which worked for bankers but did not seem to be delivering for the rest of Britain.
~ Chuka Umunna
Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
~ Alex Berenson
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
~ William Graham Sumner
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
~ Karl Marx
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
~ Karl Marx
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
~ Karl Marx