The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factor

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

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.

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.