Brianna Wu Quotes

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself.

I don't want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn't seem like a good outcome.

Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.

Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

In my view, we need to break up Facebook from Instagram and the other potential competitors that Facebook bought up.

Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.

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

For consumers to benefit from technology, there has to be fair and open competition. Fair and open competition is the only course we know that can lead to meaningful innovation.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

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

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

With competition, prices tend to be uniform; with monopoly, prices are uniformly high.

The so-called anti-trust laws were intended to prevent the creation of monopolies and to forbid unreasonable profits to those monopolies

We ... deceive ourselves in believing that competition can secure for the public fair treatment in such cases.

[Monopolies are:] ... the bane of our body politic at the present day.

Tough enforcement of the antitrust laws can help prevent a recurrence of inflation by attacking abuses of economic power.

Liberty and monopoly cannot live together.

To put a halt to what it considered to be a rising tide of concentration in American business, Congress, with full power to do so, decided to clamp down with vigor on mergers … on the premise that mergers do tend to accelerate concentration in an industry. Many believe that this assumption of Congress is wrong, and that the disappearance of small businesses with a correlative concentration of business in the hands of a few is bound to occur whether mergers are prohibited or not. But it is not for the courts to review the policy decision of Congress…

I don’t like monopolies when I see them.

Monopolies—the worst of all taxes.

People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.

I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.

My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

If you're a large organization, you may welcome a bit of regulation to keep the small guys out.