24 Antitrust Quotes On Success In Life
These antitrust quotes will inspire you. Antitrust, relating to legislation preventing or controlling trusts or other monopolies, with the intention of promoting competition in business.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging antitrust quotes, antitrust sayings, and antitrust proverbs.
Best Antitrust Quotes
- “As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.” ~ Isabel Paterson
- “The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That’s what antitrust is all about.” ~ Charles James
- “The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.” ~ Jeremy Rifkin
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“I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.” ~ Mario Monti
- “The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.” ~ Jeremy Rifkin
- “Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?” ~ Henry Manne , Antitrust quotes law
- “Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful ‘intent to monopolize’; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for ‘unfair competition’ or ‘restraint of trade’; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for ‘collusion’ or ‘conspiracy.'” ~ Ayn Rand
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“Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.” ~ Al Franken
- “Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “This antitrust thing will blow over.” ~ Bill Gates
- “You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.” ~ Neelie Kroes
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“Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.” ~ Al Franken
- “Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.” ~ Al Franken
- “Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.” ~ Stephen Manes
- “We need to use antitrust laws. You know, we need to create real media again.” ~ Jill Stein
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“Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.” ~ Orrin Hatch
- “My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.” ~ Zephyr Teachout
- “It’s time to use the antitrust laws and to break up this conglomerate corporate media that has now poisoned our democracy to the point that our very survival is at risk for the kinds of monstrosities that are flourishing in our corporate media dominated discussion.” ~ Jill Stein
- “A competitive threat is not the same thing as an antitrust violation… It is difficult to make out FairSearch’s precise antitrust arguments. There are alternatives to ITA’s software: both the GDSs but also upstarts such as the U.K.’s Everbread Ltd., which has relationships with 60 low-cost carriers, and Vayant Travel Technologies LLC of New York. It isn’t clear, therefore, that competition would be reduced even if Googled didn’t honor ITA’s contracts with other travel companies.” ~ Peter Gallagher
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“Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.” ~ Ilana Mercer
- “We can speculate on what’s likely, but what’s needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former prosecutor, I prosecuted antitrust cases civilly. And I can say that antitrust investigations merit searching, penetrating scrutiny and investigation. That’s what we need here.” ~ Richard Blumenthal
- “A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get – and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.” ~ Eliot Spitzer
- “In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.” ~ Harold L. Vogel
- “We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)” ~ Bill Gates
