C Quotes
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“Capital erosion was another way to waste his substance, to become as thin and hollow as he felt, to lighten the burden of undeserved good fortune, and commit a symbolic suicide while he still dithered about the real one. He also nursed the opposite fantasy that when he became penniless he would discover some incandescent purpose born of his need to make money.”
Source: Bad News
“Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.”
Source: The Message of Mahatma Gandhi
“Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.”
“Capital formation is the greatest charity of all.”
“Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.”
“Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.”
“Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].”
“Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.”
Source: Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln
“Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.”
“Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.”
Source: A treatise on political economy; or, The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Tr. by C.R. Prinsep, with notes
“Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this.”
“Capital is a living substance and it is expected to grow and to multiply and to compound.”
Source: Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing
“Capital is a living substance and it is expected to grow and to multiply and to compound. And the more capital we have, the more of it we can get, and the more income we can command.”
Source: Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing
“Capital is a living substance and must be invested as such.”
“Capital is a lot like people; it needs to be employed.”
“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.”
Source: Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“Capital is at risk; now primarily due to climate risk.”
Source: Climate Flip - Climate Risk Reporting In Banks
“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”
“Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.”
“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”
“Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving.”
Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The
“Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.”
“Capital is perhaps the last form of individual freedom.”
“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production
“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.”
Source: The Economics of Industry
“capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.”
Source: Political Economy for Beginners
“Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.”
“Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.”
“Capital isn't scarce; vision is.”
“Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.”
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“Capital leveraging is something that takes place in natural ecosystems. For example, the trees leverage capital in service to the birds.”
“Capital loves yield, and it flows in the direction of higher profits.”
“Capital market liberalization includes freeing up deposit and lending rates, opening up the market to foreign banks, and removing restrictions on capital account transactions and bank lending. The focus is on deregulation, not on finding the right regulatory structure.”
“Capital markets need to reward human progress in addition to profits. The two can be co-collaborators - human progress can amplify profits and profits can amplify human progress.”
“Capital markets reward you for what you learn that other people have yet to ascertain.”
“Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are overwhelmingly concerned with the capture of and trade in property rights, the ownership of assets that magnify a corporation's wealth, power, and control. It is what John Maynard Keynes described as "a casino world"-wealth without worth.”
“Capital must be consistently accumulated and compounded - that's the expectation.”
Source: Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing
“Capital must be consistently preserved, accumulated and compounded - that's the expectation.”
Source: Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing
“Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.”
Source: The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton
“Capital must be stewarded - it must be acted upon with a spirit of responsibility.”
Source: Business for Beginners: Getting Started
“Capital must flow from low yield to high yield and from high risk to low risk, everything else being equal.”
“Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.”
Source: A treatise on political economy
“Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.”
“Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.”
“Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.”
Source: Executioner, Pierrepoint
“Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.”
“Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.”
“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.”
“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.”
“Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.”