Capital Gain Quotes

He that trades with Money he hath borrowed at 8 or 10 per Cent cannot hold Market with him that borrows his Money at 6 or 4.

Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

We didn't create an institution to increase land value or asset value.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Land will continue to rise in value, being yet capable of Improvement; And as the Demand increases, for the Quantity will be the same

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

Profit is the concern of a little man.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

When you liberalize trade, benefits go to capital and away from labor.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless promotions, taking advantage of the habituation of the public to great expectations; (d) the development of downright fraud, imposing on a public which had grown credulous and gullible.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

I think homes are a palpable form of investment, and I understand them.

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.