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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Mario Puzo

I thought it was Monopoly money.

Trista Wright

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

Thomas Mccoy

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.

Charles A. James

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

Thomas Mccoy

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

Spiro T. Agnew

We never sued Microsoft for having a monopoly, ... We sued them for what they did with their monopoly. And that I think is going to be the cutting-edge issue in antitrust issues.

Joel Klein

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

Bruce Chizen

So if you play that out, it's going to be a long time before we can bring a competing option to consumers and break the cable monopoly.

Bob Elek

We must not permit the emergence of a monopoly. You have to be able to download content and play it on any device.

Christian Vanneste

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.

Randy Belote

This is a little bit like Monopoly. In this case, they are buying up brands internationally and trying to create an international business.

Tom Pirko

They're certainly on the list of the top five brands in the toy industry, up in the ranks with a Barbie or Monopoly.

Hayley Kissel

To him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game.

Ken Follet

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

Steve Ballmer

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

Christopher Clark

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.

Brian Goodstadt

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

Frederic Bastiat

[I]t is a way to break up this monopoly that has gone on where brokers are made overnight by inheriting books of business.

Linda Friedman

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

Alice Moore

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Vladimir Lenin

I suggest the anti-monopoly law be enacted as soon as possible, to fully guarantee fair market competitions by legal means.

Ren Yuling

This approach will deliver high speed broadband services to more Australians, more quickly, than if the new network was a Telstra monopoly.

David Tudehope

It is scandalous that the California Dental Association continues to protect its dental monopoly at the expense of those who need care the most. AB 1334 is necessary to expand critical access to care for millions of Californians.

Lin Sarfaraz

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.

Thomas Mccoy

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

Valery Yashin

I suggest an anti-monopoly law be enacted, to fully guarantee fair market competitions.

Ren Yuling

I have stopped believing in Santa Claus and I have stopped believing the government will ever fix the monopoly system.

John Slater

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.

Jon Meacham

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

George Hacker

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.

Simon Awde

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.

Jim Allen

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.' .

Denny Chin

Everybody hates a monopoly... it doesn't matter where it is whether it's in NZ, people hate them... so we have to deal with that.

Stuart Davies

It's not a monopoly, but it comes close.

Steven Bregman

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

Queen Elizabeth

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

Mike Eggl

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

David Boswell

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.

Mark Hulbert

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

Selma Blair

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.

Michael Badnarik

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.

Michael Silverman

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.

Martin Pyykkonen

Having had a monopoly over the desktop, Microsoft [Corp.] has had the advantage of forcing their standards on users.

Kevin Carmony

This is an earth shattering reversal in competition policy from an agency that broke up [the AT&T] monopoly 21 years ago.

Gene Kimmelman

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

Richard Mckenzie

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.

Buzz Peterson

Yahoo! and Microsoft have reminded investors that search is not a monopoly.

Mark Mahaney

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.

Josh Lerner

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

Arthur Mitchell

There are so many smart people over there. There is no monopoly on brains, and none on education either.

William Banholzer

Monopoly implies customers have no choices.

Bill Pallone

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

Martin Reynolds

There are no benefits in this merger for consumers or the U.S. economy. This merger continues the anticompetitive resurrection of the old Bell monopoly.

Earl Comstock

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

Earl Comstock