Capital Shortage Quotes

Drying up of capital has different consequences in different environments.

Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

In the panic of 1819, the protectionists stressed the lack of consumer markets abroad and the necessity for building up a market at home. The inflationists, on the other hand, stressed the shortage of money capital available to manufacturers as a cause of the crisis.

The underconsumptionist of 1819 believed that consumption would be stimulated by tariffs, while the underconsumptionist of a later day urged monetary expansion as the remedy. On the other hand, the remedy proposed for the shortage of money capital was monetary inflation in 1819, encouragement of savings and thrift in the 1930s.

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.

There will always be a capital shortage from the perspective of entrepreneurs.

People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.