The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.John F. Kennedy
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.Thomas Jefferson
Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.Stephen Hawking
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.John D. Rockefeller
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.John D. Rockefeller
