Joseph A. Schumpeter Quotes

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents’ minds: ‘Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?’

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

The cold 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.

When I was a young man, I wanted to be three things: I wanted to be the world’s greatest horseman, the world’s greatest economist, and the world’s greatest lover. Unfortunately I never became the world’s greatest horseman.