Capital Productivity Quotes

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.

Gold that's put to use more gold begets.

Whether an instrument shall be regarded as productive capital or not depends entirely on its being used, or not, by some productive labourer…

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or less alarming to persons unaccustomed to the operations of industry; whereas, on the contrary, landed property produces without any change of either quality or position.

As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.

Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish anything. If they are utilized according to a good idea, profit results. If they are utilized according to a mistaken idea, no profit or losses result. It is the entrepreneurial decision that creates either profit or loss.