A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Capital isn’t this pile of money sitting somewhere; it’s an accounting construct.
Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren’t there.
You will not see, in my career, the kind of returns this industry had in 2005 and 2006 for a very simple reason – the banks were undercapitalized, and returns are a function of earnings and capital.
Too many startups get in the habit of continually raising more and more money, which has the deleterious effect of both pushing out profitability and limiting your exit options. The less rounds of capital you need to raise, the more of your company you get to own.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn’t define politics in the way it did in the past.
If you look at some of the smaller capital markets in Asia, when they want funding, they either come here to Hong Kong or they go to California, the mecca of the Internet, because they can capture the liquidity and then move on and do what they want to do, which is develop a business.
One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it’s the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.
There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation’s capital having good intentions – and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.
Returns matter a lot. It’s our capital.
IndieBio’s capital, facilities, and deep mentoring by a network of biotech-specific experts have the potential to spawn the Google, Facebook, and Instagrams of biology.
Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.
The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
I know the great team at Sherpa Capital will continue to rise and scale new heights.
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.
Venture capital is an inherently optimistic form of investment – which is both its primary strength and its primary weakness.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
We own only a small percentage in Omnivore, but we manage it. It is basically a venture capital fund to help newer enterprises and provide them with the funding they require in their early stages of development.
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
As long-term business builders, we invest our permanent capital and deploy management skills in support of talented leaders and companies with global potential.
Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love – from the audience, friends and relatives. But true and faithful friends are exceptionally rare.
I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed – geared toward improving our entire society.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
I’m looking forward to partnering with TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners. This transaction is a clear endorsement of J. Crew and the hard work and dedication of all of our associates.
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.
Generally, the president’s power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit.
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.
Bakhchisaray was formerly the capital of the Crimean khanate and once an important crossroad of the Silk Road, where traders met from across the Black Sea, the steppes of Central Asia, Russia, and eastern Europe.
After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a ‘venture capital’ approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.
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.
We know what we are. Our business is originating, distributing, and managing capital for individuals and institutions.
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
If there’s a country, and it’s dangerous, and we deploy a U.S. military man or woman, if there’s only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is ‘boots on the ground.’ We do a disservice to the sacrifice of these people, particularly if they are killed, when we say there’s no boots on the ground.
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.
I wish I had had more mentorship and more access, not only for capital, but the critical thinking.
The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there’s no concentration of it.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.
We have a long and proud tradition as a nation of investing in our human capital so that we can build a thriving middle class. You look at the G.I. Bill after the war – it was an investment in our service members who had served this nation with distinction.
We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE.
We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.
The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.
When the students are occupied, they’re not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.
When I go to a bar, I don’t go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.
So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.
If you look at the history of the American capital market, there’s probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.
Without effective protection of the citizens’ right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.
We believed the world didn’t need another commoditized venture capital firm.
We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.
But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what’s actually happening. They don’t realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don’t have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.
