Quotes with capital

  • The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
  • America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
  • There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.
  • Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
  • And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
  • There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
  • In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.
  • I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
  • The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Sigmund Freud Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle li is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • William Booth A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • C. L. R. James After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • C. Wright Mills America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Benjamin Tucker And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Charles Lamb Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Ann Macbeth Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Tucker But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • John Maynard Keynes But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
    The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) Chap.XXIV
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Henry George Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Karl Marx Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Karl Marx 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.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Alfred Marshall Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
    Alfred Marshall
     
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  • Sam Walton Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Bethany McLean Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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