Robert Cardillo Quotes

The holder of a monopoly is a sinner and offender.

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

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.

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

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.

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.

Monopolies have good sides to them as well as bad sides to them.

I don’t like monopolies when I see them.

Regulation is often a way to keep a dominant firm in place.

Where there's a lack of competition - as we saw with Mylan Pharmaceutical's virtual monopoly on EpiPen - price increases often follow.

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

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

With less competition, corporations can use their power to raise prices, limit choice for consumers, cut wages for workers, crowd out start-ups and small businesses.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

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.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

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