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Our poverty will be brought ho...

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

Why should we stunt our ambiti...

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

There is another method of obt...

There is another method of obtaining money... It does not presuppose the existence of accumulated results of previous development, and hence may be considered as the only one which is available in strict logic. This method of obtaining money is the creation of purchasing power by banks. The form it takes is immaterial.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

The very foundation of private...

The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most meaningful types of private property and free contracting disappear from the moral horizon of the people.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

The spirit of a people, its cu...

The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepareЂ'all this and more is written in its fiscal history, stripped of all phrases. He who knows how to listen to its message here discerns the thunder of world history more clearly than anywhere else.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

In economic life competition i...

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

Nothing is so treacherous as t...

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

We always plan too much and al...

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

Can capitalism survive? No. I ...

Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

I set out to become the greate...

I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

Access to the national dividen...

Access to the national dividend is usually to be had only on condition of some productive service previously rendered or of some product previously sold. This condition is, in this case, not yet fulfilled. It will be fulfilled only after the successful completion of the new combinations. Hence this credit will in the meantime affect the price level.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

The banker, therefore, is not ...

The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity 'purchasing power' as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

Recognition of the inevitabili...

Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

It is however always important...

It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense....

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

The essential point to grasp i...

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

The perennial gale of creative...

The perennial gale of creative destruction

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

Surely, nothing can be more pl...

Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

The evolution of the capitalis...

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

The state has been living on a...

The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

Pessimistic visions about almo...

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

Joseph Alois Schumpeter 82 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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