Capitalist Quote by Joseph A. Schumpeter Download Open image “Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.” — Joseph A. Schumpeter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalist Economic Economics Growth Mean Progress Turmoil
With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“With the recent demise of totalitarian communisms, and new rise of capital’sglobal reach and power, it has become fashionable to explain away today’s gross… — Kent Welton Copy Share Image
It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed. — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. — George Orwell Copy Share Image