personal capital

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Meaning: (finance)Financialresourcesor otherwealthbelonging to a particular person, especially when used forinvestmentpurposes.1982September 13, Christopher Helman, “Facing Bankruptcy, He Throws A Party”, inObserver-Reporter, Pennsylvania, USA, retrieved7 October 2013:Having two unsold houses on the market for a long time "has eaten a lot of ourpersonal capital," Alexander said.2013February 21, “A Turnaround At Chesapeake Energy? Not Yet.”, inForbes, retrieved7 October 2013:He could spend shareholders’ capital acquiring massive stretches of land, then only put up his ownpersonal capitalto invest in the wells drilled into the best parts of those plays.; (idiomatic)Goodreputation,credibility, orinfluence.1909December 27, “Taft Ruffles the Conservatives”, inBoston Evening Transcript, retrieved7 October 2013, page 9:[T]hey believe that other radical propositions which the President is urging proceed from a very narrow demand, in fact, one not much larger than the desire of men like La Follette and Cummins to makepersonal capitalout of their own radicalism.1937December 28,Walter Lippmann, “Newton Baker, ‘Almost Selfless,’ Wouldn't Capitalize His War Fame”, inYoungstown Vindicator, retrieved7 October 2013, page 6:I have always thought . . . that the real reason he retired from public life, though he was obviously the heir of Wilson and for long the first Democrat in the land, was that he could not bear the thought of makingpersonal capitalout of his career in the war.2010October 21,Roger Cohen, “Going, Going, Gone”, inNew York Times, retrieved7 October 2013:No U.S. president should invest hispersonal capitalby inaugurating direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders when those talks are set to abort weeks later.

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