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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.

To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.

Quotes by Woody Harrelson

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

Quotes by Stewart Alsop

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

Quotes by Steve Ballmer

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

Quotes by Steve Ballmer

About Quotes

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Quotes by Spiro T. Agnew

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.

Quotes by Robert Toombs

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

Quotes by Robert Trout

It's not hard to be valuable when you are a monopoly.

Quotes by Robert Cardillo

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu

Amazon Quotes

Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.

Quotes by Mehdi Hasan

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

Quotes by Louis Theroux

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

Quotes by Lawrence Lessig

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

Quotes by Laura Ingraham

Been Quotes

Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.

Quotes by J. A. Konrath

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

Quotes by Herbert Croly

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

Quotes by Henry Cabot Lodge

Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.

Quotes by Gwynne Shotwell

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

Quotes by Craig Brown

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.

Quotes by Burt Rutan

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these monopoly quotes cover?
They cover monopoly as both a political metaphor and a real business debate about market dominance.
Why do people search for monopoly quotes?
The term monopoly comes up often in tech and business news, so people search for quotes that frame the debate memorably.
What does the 'giant Monopoly board' quote mean?
It uses the board game as a metaphor for how decision-makers in Washington are perceived to treat global affairs as a strategic game rather than a matter of real consequences. See our Bureaucracy quotes for related commentary.
What does the Microsoft monopoly quote refer to?
It references Microsoft's historical dominance over desktop operating systems, a well-documented point in tech and antitrust discussion.
What does 'we don't have a monopoly, we have market share' mean?
It draws a distinction a business figure makes between an illegal market monopoly and simply being the largest player by market share, a common line of defense in antitrust conversations.

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.