Walt Mossberg Quotes

The great issue before the American people today is the control of Government and industry by private monopoly.

Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.

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.

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.

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

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.

Perhaps it’ll surprise you but we socialists don’t agree with your rebate agony. The quicker the concentration of wealth is completed the better it suits us…. The point that all you reforming folks seem to miss is that you are locking the stable doors after the horse is gone. The trusts are formed. The big shipper has got the money. Also, with the money he has bought the government.

I think competition always produces better results than a monopoly.

Google's competitors fail to demonstrate that Google's actions stifle competition rather than reflect pro-consumer innovations.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

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.

Competition in the American tech sector is being gobbled up by the largest players, and it's threatening our entire industry.

Monopolists always defend their monopolies by arguing that competition is wasteful. When the railroad barons completed their monopoly, they argued it would be wasteful to have competing rail lines, AT&T said the same thing. But today, the size and scope of these monopolies is different.

Competition's a good thing.

From search and books to online TV and operating systems, antitrust affects our daily digital lives in more ways than we think.

Being a 'monopoly' is not illegal, nor is trying to best one's competitors through lower prices, better customer service, greater efficiency, or more rapid innovation.

I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.

I'm a market person, but there are certain circumstances where you've got to have government put up the guardrails or bust up entrenched interests before they become too powerful.

Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.

You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.

My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

There's no reason why there needs to be one search engine or one social network or one store that we buy all of our crap from. It's possible to imagine a world in which there's actually competition.

Competition exists everywhere.