Franklin Foer Quotes

I was ringside for Amazon and Google.

Competition is good and has served us well.

Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

Xiaomi looks a bit like Apple but is really more like Amazon with some elements of Google.

There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything.

Competition's a good thing.

I think competition always produces better results than a monopoly.

Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

I welcome Microsoft having a store on Windows; what I've always resisted was a push to close down Windows to competing stores.

Competition matters.

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.

Competition is always good.

Competition has always been good.

I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.

It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.

Open platforms encourage innovation. Whenever you have a closed platform, a monopoly on commerce, and all these platform rules, it stifles innovation.

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant corporations of the day, and that they would disrupt them and make them less powerful, but they could never envision that Amazon would overtake them all.

Of course, America's free-enterprise system is what enables our manufacturers to be the most innovative.

Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition.

Supermarkets must not eliminate the individual retailers and market roads like the Northcote.

I think that, in the end, the consumer's going to win on the Internet.

I'm here to win. I'm here to play, and who I hang out with is my choice.

I like free markets, I like competition.

We can just keep doing it the way we're doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now - behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.

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?