“The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.” CompanyIndiaProductionsEastMonopolyOpium Author:Robert Trout
“If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.” IfsWorldPersonsCountryGovernmentWould BeSpaceRoomsEffortCompanyDependsMessagesProgramMissionsWelfareAgencyIf I CouldMotivatedRequirementsMonopolyCompetenceCooperativesFree WorldSpace ProgramGovernment Agencies Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.” PeopleIfsYearsChildrenLittlesSaidCountryStatesHomeGovernmentForceUnitedCommonPayCompanyUnited StatesMastersPoliticianSlaveDebtStatisticsLoanMonopolySharks Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease
“Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?” IfsCompanyFieldsObjectsCreatingBuiltMonopolyNucleusNew Company Author:Edwin Land
“Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.” WellsStatesWisdomPoliticsNamesCompanyKnownEconomyProgramWorkersVariousTechniqueLiberalismEmployeeOwnershipMonopolyEsops Author:Ronald Reagan
“The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.” IfsWantCompanyTalkingCareersPiecesPlansModelsInvestingStartingCompetingMonopolyBusiness Models Author:Peter Thiel
“The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldKindBigsLyingCompanyMetsSmartEntrepreneurArroganceCapitalistUsersVentureMonopolySmart PeopleMacintoshVenture Capitalists Author:Guy Kawasaki
“A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate.” IndividualNaturalSecretCompanyEffectsDemandRaisesTradeSellsCompetitionRateProfitGrantedCommodityWagesTradingMonopoly Book:Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings
“I'm sure the gasoline companies would love to keep their 100 percent monopoly on transportation fuel.” CompanyPercentFuelMonopolyTransportationGasoline Author:Chris Paine
“Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.” HomeAmericaScienceEasyAnimalCompanyPracticalsForestsRegionsNeverthelessMonopolyFurWild AnimalEvergreensWoods And Forests Book:A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American