Quotes About Capital

the likelihood that those estimated future cash flows will actually materialize (risk), how large those cash flows will likely be (growth), how much investment will be needed to keep the business ticking along (return on capital), and how long the business can generate excess profits (economic moat).

Besides fixed assets, an industrial company needs to manage working capital efficiently.

I knew a little bit about Prague. The first thing that came to mind was that Prague citizens had a habit of throwing powerful officials out of windows—the Second Defenestration of Prague began the Thirty Years War in 1618. There wasn't another capital city with a First Defenestration that I knew of, let alone a second one. Prague was full of my kind of people.

Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them.

A hedge fund, Hildene Capital Management, which had invested some of the family's wealth, said that it was no longer comfortable doing business with the Sacklers. Brett Jefferson, the fund's manager, revealed that someone close to the firm had suffered an "opioid-related tragedy," and said, "My conscience led me to terminate the relationship." Even Purdue's banker, JPMorgan Chase, cut ties with the company.

These models will recognize the inter-connectedness of all things, turning away from the mindless materialism and consumerism that has destroyed the ecological capital on which we rely.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Each type of pseudo-populism comes into being to improve or save its respective adherents from the absence of a moral or social framework, which means that even if we don't understand them fully, we are expected to place our faith in them. Although these pseudo-populist organizations are relatively small, they manage to influence governments, invoke terror, and control large sums of capital.

La historia de los ciclos largos demuestra que el Estado solo se siente forzado a actuar cuando el capital fracasa en su empeño por impulsar los salarios a la baja y cuando los nuevos modelos de negocio se ven anegados bajo una avalancha de condiciones negativas;

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Como una calavera estancada en la zona sur de Santiago, la obra gruesa del Hospital del Trabajador ahí quedó sin terminar, sin ver realizado el macroproyecto de salud que Salvador Allende soñó para este sector de la capital.

To that high capital, where kingly DeathKeeps his pale court in beauty and decay,He came.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Likewise, he made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each grating to cover each capital atop the pillars.

Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar.