“The entrepreneur is essentially a man of action, driven not by hedonistic motives but by the dream and the will to found a private kingdom, the will to conquer, and the joy of creating.”
德语
“企业家本质上是行动者，驱动他的不是享乐动机，而是建立私人王国的梦想与意志、征服的意志以及创造的喜悦。”
“The typical entrepreneur is more self-centred than other types, because he relies less than they do on tradition and connection and because his characteristic task — theoretically as well as historically — consists precisely in breaking up old, and creating new, tradition.”
德语
“典型的企业家比其他类型的人更为自我中心，因为他比他们更少依赖传统和人脉关系，而且他的特征性任务——无论在理论上还是在历史上——恰恰在于打破旧传统、创造新传统。”
“The process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. It is what capitalism consists in and what every capitalist concern has got to live in.”
英语
“创造性破坏的过程是关于资本主义的根本事实。它是资本主义的本质所在，也是每个资本主义企业必须置身其中的现实。”
“The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”
英语
“新市场的开拓，无论国内或国外，以及从手工作坊到美国钢铁公司这样的企业的组织演变，都说明了同一个产业突变过程——它不停地从内部革新经济结构，不停地摧毁旧结构，不停地创造新结构。”
“Capitalism, then, is by nature a form or method of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary.”
英语
“因此，资本主义在本质上是一种经济变革的形式或方法，它不仅从来不是静止的，而且永远不可能是静止的。”
“Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.”
英语
“资本主义能存续吗？不能。我认为它不能。”
“The history of capitalism is studded with violent bursts and catastrophes. The process not only destroys firms and industries that have become obsolete, but also sweeps away whole institutional frameworks and cultural values.”
英语
“资本主义的历史布满了猛烈的爆发和灾变。这一过程不仅摧毁了已经过时的企业和产业，还横扫了整个制度框架和文化价值。”