Quotes about Capital
No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the
- Henry David Thoreau
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.
- Clayton M. Christensen
H]e was in another sort of contemplative mood perhaps more common in the young men of our day — that of questioning whether it were worth while to take part in the battle of the world: I mean, of course, the young men in whom the unproductive labor of questioning is sustained by three or five per cent on capital which somebody else has battled for.
- George Eliot
I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.
- Albert Einstein
The Mayor about the fable of the Prodigal Son: 'But he came home.' 'Yes, his courage failed him. He felt very alone on that pig farm. There was no branch of the Party to which he could look for help. Das Kapital had not yet been written, so he was unable to situate himself in the class struggle. Is it any wonder that he wavered for a time, poor boy?
- Graham Greene
Time is the capital of your life, so spend it wisely.
- Tony Robbins
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
- Jerry B. Jenkins