Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

I support social market economy. But it only works if there is fair competition.

Free prices are the price of freedom.

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

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.

I like free markets, but I do like fair markets.

There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

There is no pure free-market economy.

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.

I am just as anxious as Mr. Brandeis can be, to have trade regulated by competition as far as possible; but as a matter of fact, competition has broken down hopelessly in this country to adequately control prices, to adequately control quality, and we all know it… it is the theory regarding competition that it will regulate prices and quality; that it will give us reasonable prices and superior quality. That is a beautiful theory. But if this theory has ever corresponded to the facts in the past (and this I doubt) we may be sure that in the future it will never again do so.

Liberty and monopoly cannot live together.

I believe in markets before mandates.

I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.

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

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

I'm a very free market guy.

I'm for strong antitrust enforcement.

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.

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

Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.

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 only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.