There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness. . . The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.
I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.
The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would have disastrous effects, not just for the rich but for the poor and middle classes themselves. For it is the rich who provide a proportionately greater amount of saving, investment capital, entrepreneurial foresight, and financing of technological innovation that has brought the Unites States to by far the highest standard of living - for the mass of the people - of any country in history.
The stock market has gone up and if you are stock picking, that's fine, you may do a bit better than the market. But if you want to play in another game where you can get rapid increases of value and so on and so forth, this apparently has become the new parlour game, to invest in these companies and many their cases, the private equity that has been piling in onto of the venture capital is creating the unicorn, in other words the company with the $1 billion valuation.
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment. . . It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.
A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have bore the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered but the jobs left and the factories closed.
No Keynesian has ever proposed a measure designed to make the individual more productive; for that would require institutional means for enabling him to acquire ownership of the nonhuman factor of production: capital.
There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.
The near-term attacks. . . will either rival or exceed the 911 attacks. . . And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list.
What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.
London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
What is lacking to the underdeveloped nations is not knowledge, but capital.
I remember my very first encounter with Japan. At that time, I was Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg. Out of nowhere, Japan's Consul General in St Petersburg came to my office and said Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to invite me to Japan. I was very surprised because I had nothing to do with Japan except being a judoka. This was an opportunity to visit Tokyo and a couple of other cities. And, you know, a capital is a capital everywhere: there is the official script and certain protocol. It is always easier to talk in the provinces, the conversation is more natural.
A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries - it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty.