Unproductive Investment Quotes

Panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back.

It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.

If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.