Joseph Schumpeter Quotes

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs.

When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves.

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.

I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.

No President has yet repealed the business cycle.

In good years, [the law] does not allow the state to capture so-called surplus revenue to save them for the downside of the business cycle

How do people know what they want until we show them?

In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking.

The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.

The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.

The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most advertisements are so infernally dull.... our business needs massive transfusions of talent. And talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that's centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society. We are also a company that understands community.

In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.