Rupert Murdoch Quotes

Monopolies, whether private or governmental, are always abused by those who hold them.

Markets, when left to themselves, can sort of slip into being just the private property of big businesses and cartels, meeting the needs of some businesses and not the needs of customers.

Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.

I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself.

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

The holder of a monopoly is a sinner and offender.

Liberty and monopoly cannot live together.

If, as you say, the success of commercial society depends upon the full play of competition, why do not you and your confreres turn your attention and direct the shafts of your attacks against the trusts and corporations

These great forces are in such combination and agreement that it is well-nigh impossible for honest competition to be set up against them.

Monopolies—the worst of all taxes.

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.

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

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

The only way you can stop the unregulated monopoly ... from gouging ... is to introduce competition.

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

The existence of immense aggregations of kindred enterprises and combinations of business interests formed for the purpose of limiting production and fixing prices is inconsistent with the fair field which ought to be open to every independent activity. Legitimate strife in business should not be superseded by an enforced concession to the demands of combinations that have the power to destroy, nor should the people to be served lose the benefit of cheapness which usually results from wholesome competition.

The people were told in the last campaign that trusts [corporate monopolies] were a natural evolution, and that the only way to deal with them was to regulate them. The people are tired of being told such things. What they want is the kind of opportunity that formerly existed in this country.

The Sherman Act was designed to be a comprehensive charter of economic liberty aimed at preserving free and unfettered competition as the rule of trade. It rests on the premise that the unrestrained interaction of competitive forces will yield the best allocation of our economic resources, the lowest prices, the highest quality and the greatest material progress, while at the same time providing an environment conducive to the preservation of our democratic political and social institutions.

[Monopolies and trusts are:] dangerous conspiracies against the public good.

Theodore Roosevelt understood that unregulated monopoly could pose an even greater threat than unrestrained government.

The insurance companies use their economic power to grind down working people..

there are times when we need to step in to make sure that competition works the way it should. By doing that, we help the market to work fairly, because competition gives consumers the power to demand a fair deal. It means that companies know that if they cannot offer good prices or the service that's expected, well, the customers will go somewhere else.

In Europe, we would congratulate anyone who is successful. But congratulations stop if we find that you start to misuse a dominant position.

It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.

Monopolies are bad because people get bad service for high prices. Competition is good because people get good service for competitive prices.