Capital Investments and Financial Strategies of Enterprises
(Accounting and Business Finance)

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

With artists and virtuosi of every kind, … what they earn should become their capital, whereas they recklessly regard it as mere interest and thus end in ruin. On the other hand, those who possess inherited wealth at least know at once and quite correctly what is capital and what is interest.

The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.