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Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.

There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.

You will always need more capital than you think, because it will always take you longer to reach profitability than you can imagine.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital.

Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.