My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital – monetary or political – is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.
The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let’s try importing some human capital instead.
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
If every sector of business and society will be driven by software – how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?
Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.
You don’t need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation – meaning capital gains.
The Obama administration has been unable to call Jerusalem the capital of Israel because the Palestinians want to claim it as their capital in a future state.
Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.
I’d say, specifically after ‘Get Smart,’ people now know me either as The Guy from ‘Get Smart’ or ‘She’s Out of My League’; when that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that. But as far as the amount of people in a time, nothing touches when those Capital One commercials were playing.
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?
For every company that sees the value of their capital go up, there’s another company that has been disrupted, and the value of their capital gets marked down because it’s not going to compete in the same way.
It is really sad, as Delhi is our capital and one of the most beautiful places in India, but if a city can’t make its women feel safe, then everything else is worthless.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.
I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.
Every major food company now has an organic division. There’s more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let’s make America work, let’s make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.
The JOBS Act will allow entrepreneurs to utilize ‘crowdfunding,’ which permits them to raise equity capital from a large pool of small investors.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
If there’s a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.
As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing businesses is taxing them. Regulating businesses is taxing them. They ought to be thinking long-term about their ownership, not just their income, and that they should pay taxes on capital, as well as taxes on labor.
When the telecoms system in the U.K. was made to compete and to seek private capital, many worried that the service would get worse and there would be a further shortage of investment. They were wrong on both counts. Technology was transformed, and investment soared. Prices went down; choice and usage went up.
You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country’s success.
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
Amaravati will be a world-class capital. It will be a health and tourist destination.
Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it’s a taxable event. It’s like I bought and sold an asset. It counts as an investment, with a short- or long-term capital gain or loss.
1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.
We know that enlightened capital didn’t get rid of the slave trade.
If we get to a world of digital securities, then there isn’t a need for DTC and Cede & Co. anymore. It’s a really huge step in returning to clean capital markets.
Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.
Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.
Emerging market economies have long grappled with the challenges posed by large and volatile cross-border capital flows.
When I first started as an angel investor, I was excited to start investing in startups – but I didn’t know much. I couldn’t tell the good ones from the bad; I didn’t understand all these venture capital terms, so I would invest somewhat blindly.
Astana has been the capital of Kazakhstan only since 1997, three years after Nazarbayev told a stunned parliament that a prosperous, independent country like Kazakhstan ought to have its capital ‘in the center’ of the country, rather than on the border.
Acumen Fund’s patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya’s smallholder farmers.
People are very focused on value and preservation of capital. They’re a lot less risk-prone than they used to be.
When the venture capital industry invests, it’s usually because they sense there is money in them hills. And often it takes a high-profile winner to wake everyone up in the category. SpaceX is that company.
I’m deeply honored to lead Deloitte. I look forward to collaborating with all our people to continue to lead our profession in quality and innovation. Together, we make an impact that matters every day for our clients, the capital markets, communities, and society.
I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital… with God’s creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn’t go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can’t fulfill your dreams.
New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It’s the capital of the world.
One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th.
For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you’re good, the money comes very easily.
I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with annual income below $200,000.
In the panic of 1819, the protectionists stressed the lack of consumer markets abroad and the necessity for building up a market at home. The inflationists, on the other hand, stressed the shortage of money capital available to manufacturers as a cause of the crisis.
Unless you have fixed costs, you don’t need any capital to create a prototype. Ideally, your co-founders, with sweat equity, can create the product themselves.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.
Without effective protection of the citizens’ right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.
A woman’s health is her capital.
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.
Capital isn’t that important in business. Experience isn’t that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
