Monopolists Quotes

#1. In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

Henry A. Wallace

#2. Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

Henry A. Wallace

#3. In business, money is either an important thing or it is everything. Monopolists can afford to think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can't.

Peter Thiel

#4. Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

Marianne Moore

#5. monopolists downplay their monopoly status to avoid scrutiny, while competitive firms strategically exaggerate their uniqueness.

Peter Thiel

#6. [Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.

Jeffrey Rosen

#7. The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

Sam Wyly

#8. Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility of genetic modification generating some benign ideas, as long as we can keep them away from monopolists such as Monsanto.

Tristram Stuart

#9. Any fool would not be brave
Who takes no heed of this verse
No heroic deed or action save
Any man from Finndragon's curse

Richie Earl

#10. These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.
What?' Ronald said.
I didn't say anything.'
You're breathing heavy.

Jennifer Crusie

#12. Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.

Rob Lowe

#13. I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

Philip Gibbs

#15. He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.
[He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.]

George Herbert

#16. Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

Pablo Picasso

#17. You should've told me Tess," I murmured against her hair. "You helped me find my humanness but you took it away with your lies.

Pepper Winters

#18. I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

Suzanne Shaw

#19. Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.

Wendy Mass

#20. You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead.

Robert Jordan

#21. I don't know what to do with myself when it's sunny!

Lisa Hannigan

#22. It's just you and the track and the clock. It's the most elemental thing there is-the simplest and the hardest. No everybody is cut out for it.

Jennifer Weiner

#23. Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin