Quotes About Capital

In my early days, I wrote my dissertation for MIT at the London School of Economics, really under James Meade, but my dissertation was five chapters on the theory of capital movement, but it didn't mention money.

It's all about the money.

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.

Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people.

While I wouldn't say that most entrepreneurs find it easy to get funding, there are certainly more people out there funding technology and healthcare companies than in other areas.

J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.

I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.

The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.

Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandmothers by the time their application is reviewed.

I grew up in one of those households where, growing up in Detroit, you gravitate towards music and cars because we were the capital for a long time. Especially during my childhood. We were the Motown sound. We were the Motor City.

Capital tends to be scarcer and therefore more expensive in poor countries, while labor tends to be more abundant and therefore cheaper. Poor countries tend to save on the most expensive factor, in the same way that rich countries save on a different factor that is more expensive and scarce there, namely labor. In rich countries, it is capital that is more abundant and cheaper, while labor is scarcer and more expensive.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection. And it was at a somewhat later stage of this development that they went on the expedition against Troy.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection.

The coast populations now began to apply themselves more closely to the acquisition of wealth, and their life became more settled; some even began to build themselves walls on the strength of their newly acquired riches. For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

But I would also warn against diverting too many of the Empire's resources from a flexible navy of capital ships and starfighters to massive projects that can bring the Imperial presence to only one system at a time.

As in the past, therefore, eastern Europeans have had to compete with the West on a markedly uneven playing field, lacking local capital and foreign markets and able to export only low-margin foods and raw materials or else industrial and consumer goods kept cheap thanks to low wages and public subsidy.

As all these trends happen, the winners will be those who are able to participate fully in innovation-driven ecosystems by providing new ideas, business models, products and services, rather than those who can offer only low-skilled labour or ordinary capital.

Unlike previous pandemics, it is far from certain that the COVID-19 crisis will tip the balance in favour of labour and against capital. For political and social reasons, it could, but technology changes the mix.

South Dakota boosters had unsuccessfully tried to make a case for moving the U.S. capital from Washington DC to South Dakota, citing the latter's balmy weather and gentle Chinook winds as healthier than Washington's humid atmosphere.

The entrepreneurs of new firms as much as the management of the old (whether modernizing or not) are forced to do whatever is necessary to attract the players in the casino and then worry as much – or more – about the perfor- mance of their stock valuations as about their actual profits. Financial capital reigns arrogant and production capital has no alternative but to adapt to the new rules; some agents with glee, others with horror.

to create the full-blown security apparatus to suppress what will eventually be the bulk of a nation's population and to find a continuous substantial flow of foreign capital to offset the inordinate expense—means that it is destined to fail.

Devoid of the outside influences of capital and technology, the source of bitcoin value becomes the pure irreversible passage of time. The

He was opposed to capital punishment—"institutionalized sadism," he termed it—and in favor of prison reforms that would emphasize rehabilitation. His opinions were generally conservative, however, and he did not subscribe to the fashionable view of the sixties that criminals were victims of society.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.