The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
There's never been a good period of venture capital when prices weren't high.
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only puni...
For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punish...
Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also true that it would be desirable that they who hold the of...
The real capital of a man is a mirror worth two cents.
As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, ...
Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel's capital.
In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.
Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.
Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.
The punishment of a liar is that he is never believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
