Profit is the excess of the value of goods over their cost, ... - Joseph Schumpeter

"Profit is the excess of the value of goods over their cost, but this is not the origin of entrepreneurial income."

Joseph Schumpeter Money

Economist Historian Austrian-American 1883–1950

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