Quotes About Capital

capital collapses because it cannot exist alongside shared knowledge

The proletariat, a class of laborers,who live only so long as they find work,and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital. These laborers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity,like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

The essential condition for the existence and sway of the bourgeoisie class,is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labor.

Property, in its present form, is based on the antagonism of capital and wage-labor.

The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

Credit is a young man's capital.

There's no such thing as good money or bad money.There's just money.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

Integrity is better capital than money. You can accumulate it just like money, and you can use it just like money, but it goes further, and is enduring.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

Making money from money is like aerobatics.

Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow.

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.