The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.
Joseph A. SchumpeterEntrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
Joseph A. SchumpeterThe metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.
Joseph A. SchumpeterThe religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a Faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is disapproved of not only intellectually but also morally. There cannot be any excuse for it once the Message has been revealed.
Joseph A. SchumpeterThings economic and social move by their own momentum and the ensuing situations compel individuals and groups to behave in certain ways whatever they may wish to do-not indeed by destroying their freedom of choice but by shaping the choosing mentalities and by narrowing the list of possibilities from which to choose.
Joseph A. Schumpeter