Opportunity Cost of Capital

The opportunity cost of capital is the expected rate of return forgone by bypassing of other potential investment activities for a given capital. It is a rate of return that investors could earn in financial markets.

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    We either praise or blame according to whether the one or the other provides the greater opportunity to let our power of judgment shine.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    I acknowledge that the balance I have achieved between work and family roles comes at a cost, and every day I must weigh whether I live with that cost happily or guiltily, or whether some other lifestyle entails trade-offs I might accept more readily. It is always my choice: to change what I cannot tolerate, or tolerate what I cannot—or will not—change.
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    Mr. Whistler always spelt art, and we believe still spells it, with a capital “I.”
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)