Monopoly Quotes

• Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Rights, Use

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.94, Penguin

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• I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

  Herbert Hoover

  Opportunity, Government, Presidential

  Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the American Road”

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• Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Terrible, Terrible Things

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• Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

  John Pugsley

  Monopoly Power, Competition, Illusion

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• I'm standing on my Monopoly board that means I'm on top of my game

  Eminem

  Mean, Games, Boards

  Song: No Love

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• Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Successful, Conditions

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.29, Crown Business

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• In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a free market...Every single coercive monopoly that exists or ever has existed...was created and made possible only by an act of government...which granted special privileges (not obtainable in a free market) to a man or a group of men, and forbade all others to enter that particular field.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Men, Competition

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• Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?

  Edwin Land

  Creating, Nucleus, Fields

  "The Future of Industrial Research : Papers and Discussion" edited by Thomas Midgley, 1945.

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• Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice.

  Janet Reno

  Choices, Microsoft, Window

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• It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

  Ayn Rand

  Liberty, Libertarian, Impossible

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.66, Penguin

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• There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Loss, Government

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• in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.

  Angela Davis

  Health, Mean, Venture

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• The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who is eager to sell to him. Alternative sources of supply protect the consumer far more effectively than all the Ralph Naders of the world.

  Milton Friedman

  Home, Competition, Alternatives

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• Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Special, Liberty

  "The Voice of Reason" by Ayn Rand, 1989.

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• Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  States, Interfere

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.123, Cornell University Press

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• To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Competition, Deception, Tasks

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• Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, Causes, Enterprise

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2009). “The Reagan I Knew”, p.241, Basic Books

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• Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Believe, Reason, Should

  "May the Source Be With You". Article adapted from "The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World", www.wired.com. December 01, 2001.

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• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Democracy, Compromise

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

  Andrew Jackson

  Hands, Over You, Corporations

  Andrew Jackson (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren”, p.1525, Wildside Press LLC

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• We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

  Steve Ballmer

  Business, Humorous, Differences

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• Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

  Mario Puzo

  Competition, Genius, Scandal

  1969 The Godfather, bk.3, ch.14.

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• Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Capitalist Economy, Liberty, Libertarian

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• It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

  Daniel Webster

  Men, House, Invention

  "The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster".

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