Monopoly Quotes
On market power, control, and the boundaries of competition.
These quotes look at monopoly in both political and business terms, from Washington described as treating the world like a giant Monopoly board to Microsoft's historical dominance over desktop operating systems. For more on big tech, see our Amazon quotes.
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
Amazon Quotes
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
Been Quotes
Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.
Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.
Bureaucracy Quotes
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.
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Other entries push back on the label directly, distinguishing between having a monopoly and simply holding a large market share, and one adds a self-aware joke about not knowing what a monopoly even is until told. Together they show how contested the term can be.
