Mario Monti Quotes

Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.

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

Free competition and the open market system as they were known in the old days, have lost their places in the system, and that the only substitute for them, in these modern times, is government regulation and control.

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.

Rules designed to ensure competition ensure that innovators with new ideas can challenge incumbents on a level playing field.

You've got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don't jam entrepreneurship.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.

Healthy competition places discipline on the market and should focus providers on providing the best service at a lower cost.

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

Many markets work best with little or no outside interference. But others - especially those subject to big 'externalities' - need a helping hand.

The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.

We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself.

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

There must be reasonable restrictions upon competition else we shall see competition destroyed.

I do not dread these corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain and control them.

I am firmly opposed to the Government entering any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens.

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.

Liberty and monopoly cannot live together.

… strong national regulation of interstate corporations

In the past few months, as a result of our action, we have demanded of many citizens that they surrender certain licenses to do as they please in their business relationships; but we have asked this in exchange for the protection which the state can give against exploitation by their fellow men or by combinations of their fellow men.

The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum and for determining the “rules of the game”.