Capital Quotes

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

Property is the fruit of labor... Labor is superior to capital and deserves much the higher consideration.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

While we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.