Capital Quotes
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If, for example, each of us had the same share of capital in the national total capital, then if the share of capital goes up it's not a problem, because you get as much as I do. The problem is that capital in capitalist countries is very heavily concentrated, especially financial capital. So then if the share of income from that source goes up, that actually exacerbates inequality.
Branko Milanovic -
One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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These are special schemes for transferring capital abroad through banks.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk -
Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.
David Lilienthal -
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
John Maynard Keynes -
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
Thomas A. Edison -
Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.
Charles Ferguson -
Today we affirm our commitment to lower Manhattan and the City of the New York, the financial capital of the world.
Henry Paulson
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Developing countries have much to gain from capital mobility: the ability to tap external sources of finance, greater financial efficiency from deeper stock and bond markets, and technology transfer and know-how from foreign direct investment.
Zanny Minton Beddoes -
When financial sectors are small and capital is mobile, floating exchange rates spell massive currency volatility. When a lot of foreign capital flows in, a freely floating exchange rate rises sharply, wreaking havoc for domestic banks and exporters alike.
Zanny Minton Beddoes -
Money is not capital in most of the developing countries. It's just cash. Because it lacks the institutional, organizational, managerial forms to turn it into capital.
Ashraf Ghani -
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
George Bernard Shaw -
In central banking circles, it is viewed as obvious that the accumulation and destruction of reputational capital more closely resembles adaptive than rational expectations — it lags behind reality. Here, I think, the central bankers are closer to the truth than the economic theorists.
Alan Blinder -
I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.
Josh Kopelman
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.
Roberto Unger -
Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.
Mohamed El-Erian -
Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.
Dana Milbank -
One thing about Kurt Cobain is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.
Brett Morgen
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We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital
Muhammadu Buhari -
So capital is in fact borderless; that's the problem. On the other hand capital has to keep borders alive in order for this kind of cross-border trade to happen. So therefore the idea of borderlessness has a performative contradiction within it which has to be kept alive.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -
The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.
Simone Schwarz-Bart -
Capital is kind of a banking concept.
Paul Singer