Capitalist Production Quotes by Joseph A. Schumpeter

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• For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel…
• Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
• It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is,…
• The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process
• The perennial gale of creative destruction
• The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the…
• It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials.…
• The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues…
• The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.
• The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried…
• Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact…
• This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes;…

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