As entrepreneurs accelerate the processes of creative destruction that impel all economic advance, the economists measure the destruction but not the creativity... So countries that multiply the production of well-defined and well-catalogued products of the past -- from subsidized steel ingots to protected automobiles -- will seem to grow faster than countries that multiply entrepreneurs and innovations.
—George Gilder
As entrepreneurs accelerate the processes of creative destruction that impel all economic advance, the economists measure the destruction but not the creativity... So countries that multiply the production of well-defined and well-catalogued products of the past -- from subsidized steel ingots to protected automobiles -- will seem to grow faster than countries that multiply entrepreneurs and innovations.