The Entrepreneur

Zigler was a "gifted writer and critical thinker." The world doesn't have enough of either, let alone both wrapped into one.

"Alain de Botton is not an economist by training, but he clearly understands the division of labor (he even uses the term!) and is a keen observer of human action and the human condition."

When Hunt asks my help, I will be sparing of it, and when he does something on his own, I will try to encourage him, to help him associate self-reliance with joy.

By such indirection does the desire for liberty grow.

From Part V of Defending the Undefendable, “Financial.” Read by Jeff Riggenbach.

"A manager is a junior partner of the entrepreneur, as it were, no matter what the contractual and financial terms of his employment are."

If the critics are right, then Fowler Foods has missed an opportunity to turn a tidy profit by selling grilled chicken.

"The costs of an incorrect view of industrial history can be substantial."

Right now, as the economy reshuffles, there are more opportunities to generate change than ever — the kind of dynamic change that we need to grow out of this slump.

The power of creative energies to manifest themselves in the face of man-made obstacles accounts for the progress we observe even when the worst elements in society get on top

Schumpeter went on to remind the audience that the heart of the capitalist process was its endless dynamism, which was the opposite of Keynesian stagnationism.