What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.
It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the ...
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance...
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." & “These capitalists gene...
Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.
Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.
Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into absolute contradictions and crises.
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit i...
...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human n...
Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains...
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life.
Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.