Capital Quotes
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Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.
John Milton
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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
Thomas A. Edison
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Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln
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One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life.
Georges Doriot
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.
Josh Kopelman
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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
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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
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Milken, counting on nothing except his judgment that “junk” bonds weren’t really junk and that the entrepreneurs and businesses he was helping were good, led the revolution that would liberate capital from the turgid old boy network so that it could eventually find its way to Silicon Valley.
Yaron Brook
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Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.
Charles Ferguson
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Berkshire Hathaway can transfer excess capital from businesses that don't need it to businesses that do need it, tax free and in a way that enhances compound annual growth rates.
Susan Decker
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Faith is hidden household capital.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.
Dana Milbank
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question.
Gerald M. Loeb
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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
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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
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Time is the capital of your life, so spend it wisely.
Anthony Robbins
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You know, capital isn't patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.
Steve Stivers