Political power Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Wealth is created when we use existing resources in new ways. Since such creativity is virtually limitless, wealth is too.”

— Mary J. Ruwart

“We often destroy the world’s real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance.”

— Susan Wiggs

“Economic growth and technological change are accompanied by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

“The wealth creators of neoliberal mythology are some of the most effective wealth destroyers the world has ever seen.”

— George Monbiot

“The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.”

— Timothy Simpson

“True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.”

— Douglas Haddow

“Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.”

— Curtis Bill Pepper

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all…

— Richard Stallman

“Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches.”

— Peter Thiel

“Government does not create wealth; it redistributes it. Whatever it gives you it must first take from someone else.”

— Robert W. McGee