Monopoly Quotes - Page 3

• I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

  James L. Barksdale

  Thinking, Giving, Choices

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• If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Should Have, Giving, Definitions

  Vladimir Lenin (2010). “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.

  Ron Chernow

  Wall, People, World

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• They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Competition, Rich, Economics

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• When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Rights, Government, Community

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• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  Dan Glickman

  Thinking, Government, People

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• Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

  Laura Ingraham

  Information, Incredibles, South Dakota

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• Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

  Ian MacKaye

  Years, Records, Different

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

  James Q. Wilson

  Mistake, School, Function

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

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• Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Inspiration, Ethos, Groups

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Thinking, People, Microsoft

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• We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Government, Oligarchy, Cartels

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• Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.

  Noel Whittaker

  Winning, Games, Becoming

  Noel Whittaker (2011). “Making Money Made Simple”, p.231, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.

  Ilana Mercer

  Party, Government, Law

  "Party of Traitors". www.wnd.com. May 26, 2006.

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• Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

  Ted Kulongoski

  Starting Over, Healthy, Debate

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• When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

  Michael Badnarik

  Children, School, Government

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• I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

  Joichi Ito

  Break Up, Government, Roles

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• When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  New York, Rights, Government

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• A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Communication, Mean, Power

  "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea, (p. 595), 2012.

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• In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has been increasingly directed against young people, low-income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, and women.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Low Income, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

  Joe Baca

  War, Fighting, Democracy

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• We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Law, Common

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”

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• Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

  Herbert Croly

  Patriotic, Enthusiasm, Good Faith

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

  Steve Ballmer

  Stupid, Knows

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• God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

  John Hagee

  God, People, Honor

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