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Capitalism3 quotes
The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation...That incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Every piece of business strategy... Must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Marxism3 quotes
Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Bureaucracy1 quote
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Business strategy1 quote
Every piece of business strategy... Must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Democracy1 quote
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Economic growth1 quote
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Ideals1 quote
The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1950Life under capitalism1 quote
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Lying1 quote
The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1950Political ideology1 quote
Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942Political theory1 quote
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. — Joseph Schumpeter · 1942