#Capital Quotes

“We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.”

“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.”

“Credit is a young man's capital.”

“Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.”

“Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.”

“I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.”

“The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.”

“There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it”

“Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.”

“Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.”

“Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.”

“An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.”

“The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value .”

“In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.”

“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”

“Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.”

“Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.”

“We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.”

“There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.”

“Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration”

“Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.”

“Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.”

“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.”