Schumpeter Capitalism Quotes & Sayings

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

The public mind has by now so thoroughly grown out of humor with it as to make condemnation of capitalism and all its works a foregone conclusion
almost a requirement of the etiquette of discussion. — Joseph Alois Schumpeter

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

I didn't fully process this concept until I was on my way back to the States. A few thousand feet over the Atlantic, I began to unpack this idea I had held, unquestioned, for so long. Was having an adventure really about doing the most daring, bold, energetic thing? Was it about having stories to tell at cocktail parties? Was it about freedom and travel and not being tied down? Or did it have something to do with your own heart and your own courage, in whatever form that came? — Various

Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Never regret something, because at one point everything you did was exactly what you wanted to do. And sometimes that's the hardest thing to realize. — Kid Cudi

Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared. — Mal Peet

Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Capitalism does not merely mean that the housewife may influence production by her choice between peas and beans; or that plant managers have some voice in deciding what and how to produce: it means a scheme of values, an attitude toward life, a civilization - the civilization of inequality and of the family fortune. — Joseph Alois Schumpeter

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Young Shia who have been brought up with nothing, who are pretty anarchic, pretty dangerous. In 2004 when they came close to killing me, and of course they have killed very large numbers of other Iraqis. That's a major source of strength for Muqtada. — Patrick Cockburn

My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas. — Bo Burnham

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself. — Margaret Thatcher

I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f ... rich! — Kimora Lee Simmons

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Capitalism Survive? - I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society. — Joseph Alois Schumpeter

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong. — Terry Eagleton