Capital Growth Quotes

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

The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

It does not take money to make money.

Money is the seed of money.

My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world, and I say that only because that's the kind of thinking that America needs.

Business money is limitless.

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.

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.

I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

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.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer. That man is richest, whose Estate is in a growing condition…

I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"

Without development there is no profit, without profit no development.

The ideal time period to get an investment is when you've already proved your concept and know what you're doing, and it's about adding water to the seeds.

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.

Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.

I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.

It's a finite and very competitive world. All large aggregations of capital eventually find it hell on earth to grow and thus find a lower rate of return.

It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.