Businesses also use capital resources, or tools and buildings. The factories where businesses make goods are capital resources. The machines used to make and deliver goods are also capital resources.

Without these capital resources, furniture workers could not make furniture. Money is a capital resource. People who want to open a business need money to start the business. In North Carolina, business leaders, such as William Henry Snow, used their own money to help the furniture business grow. With money, these business leaders could start companies, buy machines and buildings, and hire workers.