Monopoly Quotations

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs.

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

If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board.

I'd say I'm a true conservative. Liberals have got a monopoly on protecting the environment, or all the cool technology, and I don't think we should cede that territory.

I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone knows that monopoly power is bad for markets, that people are racially biased and that illness is unequally distributed by social class.

We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end.

There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.

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.

What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has opened up the monopoly over the interpretation of Islam that used to solely belong to the religious class.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

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

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

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses - each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

I don't know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I'm familiar. It's not necessarily the best way, but it's a way.

Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.

When I was in graduate school there was an article that said the purest monopoly anyone ever had was the general store, because people were limited to how far they could ride, ... There was one general store and Granddaddy Yates had it.

We believe this provides little to no remedy, given that the operating systems business is still a monopoly business as determined by the court.

We're not against the formation of this launch monopoly. But we are concerned that there may be some unintended consequences formed by this monopoly that may impede our ability to compete on a level playing field.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

What we really are we're playing a little bit of Monopoly with somebody else providing the funds and that's Ottawa.

There are some sorts of things that individual companies or individuals can't handle, like national defense or the court system, or whatever. That's why we have the Sherman Antitrust and monopoly laws on the books, because the government has to step in when a company is not operating under market discipline.

The product (in Japan) will be lessened. The local demand will remain, but the teams are just realizing now their monopoly is crumbling because of the major leagues. The major leagues have put a major dent on fans' appetite for Japanese baseball.

We're concerned about the extension of Microsoft's monopoly on certain products by using restraints on competition and tying and leveraging with respect to other products,

Let's say the judge finds that Microsoft is a monopoly and says, OK, I'm going to get my Sword of Solomon out and then we'll have 'Microsoft Applications' and 'Microsoft Operating Systems,' ... The applications division would then pursue other operating systems than Windows to put its applications onto, and the operating systems division would pursue ways to be more competitive without having to tie it to the applications.

She's a competitor - been a basketball player herself. So we don't do anything competitive with cards or monopoly or anything. We just watch movies or watch a ballgame. We keep it like that. We've had our wars before on different things. So we decided it's best we don't do it anymore.

Most software makers reveal for free the sort of information Microsoft is being ordered to license, because anyone not in a monopoly situation has every interest in making their software as widely available as possible.

Netscape, the object of protection in this case, had in market share what the government would call a monopoly until the Great Satan of Microsoft came along. Luckily for the consuming public those theories are just that - theories.

one area at a time rather than just plopping things down, that after awhile it just looks like a big Monopoly board.

Maybe the data files are encrypted not for protection but to keep competitors away from the data as a useful monopoly tool.

No party has a monopoly on honesty, but with the collapse of old-style GOP machines in places like Indiana and Long Island, New York, it's Democrats who have a greater opportunity to cheat.

perpetuate paralyzing uncertainty that allows them to continue selling their branded drugs at monopoly prices.

On the eve of this five-day hearing, it is important to go back to basics. This case involves a clear abuse of market power by a super-dominant company using its monopoly power in one market -- PC client operating systems -- to foreclose competition on the merits in two others -- media streaming applications and work group servers.

I wouldn't think that used car salesmen have any more of a monopoly on misleading claims than financial advisers, ... My advice is don't believe anybody.

Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.

But French legislators aren't just looking at Apple. They're looking ahead to a time when most entertainment is online, a shift with profound consequences for consumers and culture in general. French lawmakers want to protect the consumer from one or two companies holding the keys to all of its culture, just as Microsoft holds the keys to today's desktop computers... Apple may not qualify as a literal monopoly -- there are lots of ways to get music and buying online accounts for only a small fraction of total music sales. But the sliver it does control it controls almost completely, and it's not out of the question to suggest that this sliver will ultimately become the only way people will buy music in the future.

Basically you're talking about business method patents and whether they're allowable. This whole area of what is suitable for monopoly protection is a fraught one. There's a lot of stuff that shouldn't be protected.

I did lie and cheat and steal my way through this, but that's 'Survivor,' ... You think it's just a game, but it's not like sitting in your living room playing Monopoly - it's about people and relationships.

If a company bids enough, it can exclude all other competitors, leaving airlines with only one possible supplier and passengers with no choice. Experience shows that if a company has the chance to buy a monopoly license, it will pay a premium for it. That is because it allows them, with one fell swoop, to ensure that competitors will not be able to keep prices down or force them to innovate.

I don't think it is so important to break the monopoly of the Russians. It is not our purpose to come here. We love this sport so we skate. We still have much things to learn from them, especially in coaching.

He is not the chairman of a public corporation. He doesn't create shareholder value. He is essentially a regulator, and he is running an unregulated monopoly in a way.

What Microsoft has been doing, through a wide variety of illegal business practices, is leveraging its Windows monopoly operating system to force its other software products on consumers,

We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.

We've gone from a regulated monopoly to an unregulated duopoly.

I think it'll be a significant cut. I think they're trying to maximize the time they have as a monopoly in order to build a customer base lead before there's competition.

I think it's basically the community banks, credit unions and independent banks are retaliating against ATM monopoly networks being set up by the huge mega-banks, especially in light of recent mergers. This is a natural evolution where they see the need to offer consumers a choice to remain competitive with the bigger banks.

It is about whether one company will be able to exploit its current monopoly in order to control access to, and commerce on, the Internet,

I think Catholic Americans had better believe there's truth in all religions, because the Second Vatican Council said that. We don't believe that we have a monopoly on truth. We believe what we have is true, but it's not the whole truth. And we can learn a lot from the other religions if we listen to them respectfully.

It is ironic, ... that a media company that should be seeking to protect the First Amendment is seeking to undermine it by claiming a monopoly on the phrase 'fair and balanced.'

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.

Our industries are under intense competition and for many of us, rail has been the most economical means of transporting in our raw goods and shipping out our finished products. Unfortunately, since most of our businesses are captive to only one major railroad, there is a monopoly of power and the railroads have been using this to dramatically increase prices and reduce service.

Our goal was to vindicate our right to use an active polo player trademark. Today the jury gave us that right. We are pleased that the jury found that we have the right to use an active mounted polo player image that represents the sport of polo. Our sports merchandising program is part of our continuing effort to expand the awareness and popularity of our sport. Since 1984, the U.S. Polo Association has been trying to co-exist with Polo Ralph Lauren, but it appears that they wanted nothing more than a monopoly on the sport. That has ended today with this ruling.

Our companies have monopoly status, which does not let them implement flexible tariff policy. And eventually it will affect their business efficiency.

Such cooperation will help to break the US monopoly in manned space flight . But more significant is that it will facilitate the world's space research if Russia, China and the European Union coordinated together on space research.

The AT&T case may have biased me with antitrust issues but the issue of allowing a monopoly to have a stranglehold on information is still a concern.

Microsoft is a monopoly -- that's pure and simple in my view. There's no question that Microsoft is able to breach a contract because they have monopoly power. I believe that would be a very positive step forward in the Microsoft case,

Microsoft is acknowledging in a way that they do have some power -- although they won't say monopoly -- and that they're willing to make some changes.

Microsoft has a monopoly in computer operating systems, ... Microsoft the gateway to the Internet.

Microsoft's behavior, in conjunction with its monopoly in the desktop market, may be viewed as an aggressive strategy to eliminate competition in the Kerberos server market.

Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly,

We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers to the Cape Cod marketplace.

Well, I take great pride in being an American, and I don't believe either party has a monopoly on wisdom.

Whether you think their witnesses are credible or non-credible ... they've admitted monopoly power, they've admitted the absence of competitive constraints, they've admitted raising prices to hurt consumers, they've admitted depriving consumers of choice and they've admitted that the reason that they did that was because they were afraid that consumers would in their view make the wrong choice, which is the non-Microsoft choice,

We encourage Monopoly fans to participate in the design of our new game board by voting often at our Web site for their favorite landmarks. Remember, elections are often won by a slim margin, so your vote could be the difference needed to land your favorite American city on a blue property space.

Today's important decision confirms what almost everybody in the world knows - Microsoft is a monopoly that has acted illegally. The Justice Department and the states deserve immense credit for putting together a case that so clearly showed Microsoft's true colors.

Today's decision represents a very significant victory for the antitrust division on the core claim in the Microsoft case that Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive conduct to preserve its monopoly position in computer operating systems.

We are pleased that the court agreed with the department that Microsoft abused its monopoly power, that it violated the antitrust laws, and that it harmed consumers,

The patent system is a trade-off. We get the 'good' of an invention in exchange for the 'bad' of a temporary monopoly on that invention.

Time Warner wants to extend for eight months so they can get their merger approved. They want to duck the issues of monopoly control and consumer access while their merger is pending.

Today's court ruling sends the message that the truth about Intel's illegal monopoly abuse will soon see the light of day." ()

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.

We don't want to have a monopoly on bad news, so we came here to share it with you.

When England and America shall have braced the policy of free industry the whole fabric of monopoly the world over will totter to its fall.

This shift is bizarre, ... If welfare recipients can be denied their benefits because they fail to complete a benefits form properly, then I can't see the unfairness in requiring those who demand state support to defend their monopoly similarly by filling out a registration form.

With every day we are coming to live and work in an increasingly networked, technology-driven world, ... And there is little question that Microsoft, which now controls the PC software market, is seeking to extend its desktop monopoly in effect to control these other technologies, and to a large extent, the network itself.

We need to completely shed ourselves of the monopoly culture. It's very difficult for some to accept. We need to get our employees to operate as entrepreneurs within their own space.

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.

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.

Finally, there is an online Monopoly game having all the features that a player needs to play comfortably. The new rules are well thought out and make the game much more interesting. It is amazing that this entire job was done by a single person who was so benevolent to offer the game for free

Failure to uphold this Commission decision will allow Microsoft to continue these anti-competitive practices ... in the markets addressed in the current case and would open the way for an extension of the monopoly into new areas.

The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a monopoly on Judaism. This is a turnoff in a world that is increasingly secular and that has turned away from religion. Jews are simply turning away from Judaism.

What the world should fight is the monopoly that some have over weapons of mass destruction and, in particular, nuclear arms.

Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us all forward.

Europe says you can't use one monopoly to compete in other markets unfairly. Microsoft argues that Windows is a unified product and no government should have the right to say what it can or can't include in the operating system.

They absolutely have a monopoly over our operation. There was no alternative for us.

These mergers are a big step toward recreating the old AT&T monopoly that the Reagan administration courageously dismantled.

The thing to really remember with these guys is that there's a pact between the government and the people. We keep a monopoly on political power and in exchange the economy grows fast and you have the chance of getting rich.

The thing about a real economy is that it actually is like the game of Monopoly in the sense that when one person has all the money, the game is over. And in a game of Monopoly, of course, that's quite charming, but in a real economy, it's much more problematic.