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.

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

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.

I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a difference in people's lives.

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

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.