Van Jones Quotes

Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very clear. They would love to have government just get out of the way and allow companies to compete, whether in their particular sectors or other sectors. They are true believers in small government.

We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.

Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.

I’m a big fan of the free market system but the free market system works [only] when you have robust competition.

The best way for you to keep Government out of your business is to promote competition.

The best industrial policy is competition.

I believe in the principle that if you have more competition, it will drive down the prices.

The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.

With less regulation, I think you would see growth come back. Of course, there are situations where you need regulation. Antitrust regulation, for example, is a good idea because you want competition. But beyond that, it gets very difficult.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.

Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at every opportunity.

We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would like competition. Well, it turns out that capitalists do everything they can to avoid competition.

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.

If you look across the economy, if you have multiple players in an industry, you have more customization, more innovation, greater choice for consumers. The more you have consolidation, the less likely you are to invest in innovation. It becomes all about driving down cost and mass production. And that's not good for innovation in an industry.

My worldview says that competition is the consumer's best friend.

I'm a very free market guy.

We want to have markets that are self-policing through competition. The Internet community doesn't want the government coming in and regulating it.

I'm for strong antitrust enforcement.

Consumers fare best when the barriers to business entry are low, which helps ensure that the market - any market - becomes competitive and stays that way.

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?

You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.