William Stanley Jevons - Capital Quotes

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Thus monopoly is limited by competition, and no owner, whether of labour, land or capital, can, theoretically speaking, obtain a larger share of produce for it than what other owners of exactly the same kind of property are willing to accept.

William Stanley Jevons

We often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.

William Stanley Jevons

The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested.

William Stanley Jevons

I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.

William Stanley Jevons

Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.

William Stanley Jevons

What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.

William Stanley Jevons