39 Quotes About Monopoly

At your next book club meeting, picture me sitting quietly in the corner, taking notes on your preferences. Imagine the next day you get an email from me trying to sell you a new grill — or a book — or accessories for your Glock. That's the Amazon/Goodreads deal. It's appalling. But everywhere in the press, you'll read about the genius of Amazon."(Michael Herrmann and the booksellers of Gibson's)

All of us are taking the night off," Wrath said abruptly. "We need some regroup time."Rhage snorted from across the table. "You're not going to make us play Monopoly again, are you?"Yup." A collective groan rose up from the Brotherhood, one that Wrath ignored. "Right after dinner.

If American chemical industries are oligopolistic, British, German, French, Italian, indeed European, chemical industries are monopolistic.

All of us are taking the night off,” Wrath said abruptly. “We need some regroup time.” Rhage snorted from across the table. “You’re not going to make us play Monopoly again, are you?” “Yup.” A collective groan rose up from the Brotherhood, one that Wrath ignored. “Right after dinner.” “I have something I have to do,” V said. “I’ll be back as soon as I can.” “Fine, but you can’t be the shoe or the dog then. They always go first.” “I can live with that.”-Wrath, Rhage, & Vishous

two well-recognized economic principles. First, the firmer the monopolistic controls in a given market, the higher the prices. Second, monopoly prices are discriminatory prices. "Charging all the traffic will bear" does not mean that all the traffic will bear the same charge! In fact, it will not.

Both the law and business have long recognized the propriety of quantity discounts. But since 1914 the Clayton Act has banned price discrimination "when the effect may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly." And since 1936 the Robinson-Patman Act has recognized such quantity discounts as legal only if they represent a saving in cost, and the law places the burden of proof on the seller.

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

You know no nation has a monopoly on good things, each one has something that the others could well afford to adopt.

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly, and then quickly expand.