Monopoly Quotations | Page 2

Thank goodness Sen. Grassley is providing some adult supervision. It's not just the taxpayers who are harmed by the current Monopoly money mentality in Washington, D.C., but more directly the hurricane survivors themselves. Every penny spent should help the survivors instead of lining the pockets of disaster profiteers.

Telecommunications has now gone from a regulated monopoly to an unregulated duopoly with just two major players. Consumers know that is not enough competition to lower their prices and drive innovation.

a downtown monopoly that would be a windfall for them and certain damage to American Airlines, North Texas and many smaller communities around the country.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Delta is completely shifting all distribution costs onto the consumer. Consumers in the South are just beginning to understand what a true monopoly is. Clearly, Delta is using its monopoly power to unfair advantage.

The cable-franchising processes may have made sense 20 years ago in a monopoly environment, but applying those processes to new entrants is merely protecting consumers from lower prices.

The brewers have lost a monopoly in a sport, and so they seem destined to have to compete more aggressively with the liquor companies.

Attorneys General in various states looking to get baseball or keep teams would sue baseball on grounds that they're a monopoly and restricting output,

You're handing them monopoly control over all gun sales in California." ()

They've got about six months before they won't have the monopoly position on EV-DO,

They have a $40 billion monopoly with unlimited resources. I'll never not worry about them.

This merger would give General Dynamics a permanent monopoly in nuclear submarines and would substantially lessen competition in surface combatants.

This merger would create a monopoly in those areas where cable television is not available, thereby eliminating the only competitive choice for millions of households.

According to the well-established supremacy doctrine, as well as the federal monopoly in immigration matters, the attorney general is under no obligation to heed this invalid order.

It seems Microsoft's cross examination has not been devastating, ... It's a mistake for Microsoft to say other people do what they're doing. First of all, the answer is, 'So what?' Also, the fundamental premise of antitrust law is that there are different rules for behavior for a monopoly than for everyone else.

Forcing PC manufacturers to take one Microsoft product as a condition of buying a monopoly product like Windows 95 is not only a violation of the court order but it's plain wrong,

It is the inevitable backslide toward monopoly and results from excessive deregulation and weak antitrust oversight.

not surprising considering what they are trying to hide, but the facts of illegal monopoly abuse are clear and undeniable." ()

The average consumer today wakes up with only two choices for full-service broadband communications, which is the future: the telephone company and the cable company. What we've gone from is a regulated monopoly to an unregulated duopoly.

They will have essentially a stranglehold over rates for consumers. They will have a very clear monopoly over supply.

Not only is this anticompetitive -- it's illegal. It's illegal because a monopoly, under antitrust law, is prohibited from engaging in anticompetitive -- not to mention anti-consumer -- business practices designed to maintain their monopoly position.

Not only do they give it away, they bribe people to take it... and they tie the product to their monopoly operating system.

That's as good an illustration as you can get both of Microsoft's monopoly power and its ease of monopoly power to restrict competition.

The Internet is already revolutionizing communication, commerce and the flow of information around the world, ... No firm should be permitted to use its monopoly power to keep out competitors or to spurn innovations.

In his role as a chief executive, he should have been aware of what's been happening. With his departure there's a greater chance that the company will not lose its monopoly position.

India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

If one industry were a complete monopoly it could not force wages below the rate fixed by the final productivity of labor in other industries.

In North Dakota, shippers are at the mercy of a railroad monopoly that sets rates in an anticompetitive manner, ... This unfair practice costs our producers millions, and there is no reason that railroads should have this monopoly status protected under law. This legislation will ensure that railroads play by the same rules as any other business, which will increase competition and help lower shipping prices.

Investors are treating eBay as the safest stock in the Internet, ... The good news for eBay is they have a defensible monopoly and it's hard to crack that.

In the next three years, 75 percent of corporate workers will be mobile at least 25 percent of the time. It is not going to be a one-size-fits-all Wintel (Windows/Intel) monopoly like its been in the past, its going to be a real hodgepodge and that's not a bad thing. It creates innovation. But convergence is not going to happen in the traditional sense.

In Pennsylvania, this alleged illegal activity forced consumers and government agencies to pay much higher prices for the brand-name, anti-anxiety drug, ... It appears Bristol-Myers Squibb attempted to manipulate federal drug regulations to extend the patent and continue its monopoly on the product.

I just don't think they ought to have a monopoly on the casino licenses,

It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation, a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor.

I do think they definitely have the monopoly on understanding the teen market,

I do find it humorous to hear 'IRS' and 'CRM' in the same sentence together, ... I think it's important that the government is realizing that it may have a monopoly but that it can't get away with acting like one.

I believe in our democracy, I don't believe that either party has a monopoly on wisdom.

I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about, the same God the Muslims talk about, the same God that the Taoists and the Confucians talk about.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable

You can't write checks now and ask questions later. . . . This isn't Monopoly money but real money that taxpayers paid to the government, and they deserve accountability.

The Court concluded that Microsoft violated the antitrust laws by abusing its monopoly power and attempting to monopolize the internet browser market. This sets the ground rules for enforcement in the information age.

The court clearly said that Microsoft is a monopoly that has abused its market position,

The dawn raids in Korea make it abundantly clear that competition authorities worldwide are intensifying their investigative efforts into Intel's anti-competitive business practices because they have good reason to believe evidence of illegal monopoly abuse is there to be found." ()

A monopoly is good for shareholders. You get a higher return on your investment than you should have.

The majors now have sort of semi-independent companies allied with them, making lower-budget films. They're competing with us. And television is a huge target for young people. So we don't quite have the monopoly on young writers, directors, producers and actors that we formerly did.

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly, and then quickly expand.

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

We're baffled that a settlement imposed against Microsoft for breaking the law should allow, even encourage, them to unfairly make inroads into education -- one of the few markets left where they don't have monopoly power,

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise

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

Airbus really escaped unscathed in this cycle, ... Boeing has a monopoly with the big planes in Asia. (It) has really made a living out there; the Asian flu affects Boeing more than Airbus.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

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.

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.