Quotes About Monopoly

Just as I have broken the monopoly of film music as being synonymous with popular music in our country, I want to prove that cricket is not the only glamorous sport.

The Soviet system of propaganda and censorship existed not so much for the purpose of spreading a particular message as for the purpose of making learning impossible, replacing facts with mush, and handing the faceless state a monopoly on defining an ever-shifting reality.

What a terrible thing for a man to believe! Since when is dishonesty a group characteristic? You have no monopoly on the truth.

Less obviously, the resurgence of capital punishment in modern America exposes the insecurity of U.S. authorities with the increase in violent crime, which challenges government monopoly of violence.

I mean, five gods in one stomach—dang. That's enough for doubles tennis, including a ref. They'd been down there so long, they were probably hoping Kronos would swallow down a deck of cards or a Monopoly game.

There's a Monopoly game going on in the day room. They've been at it for three days

Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.

Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

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

The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

A biotech firm will therefore take care to create a downstream monopoly that maximizes profits from selling the drug.

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

The point I make is simply that cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They have been with us since the world began and are still with us, in every country in the world.

What's dangerous is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals.

When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the process, led the revolution that has ended in the disintegration of the old media monopoly.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.

Exclusives are bad for artists, bad for consumers, and bad for the whole industry.

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

One dirty tactic big pharmaceutical companies use is keeping drug prices artificially high through anti-competitive conduct, such as paying competitors millions of dollars to stop them from creating generic drugs.

While I support granting drug companies patents to recover their investment and encourage innovation, companies that take advantage of this goodwill to build a monopoly must be stopped.