#monopoly

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#economics #fascism #monopoly #politics #socialism

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#know #me #monopoly #somebody #tells

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

— Steve Ballmer

#difference #market #market share #monopoly #share

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them. ↗

— Drew Carey

#brothers #first #game #had #hated

No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel. ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#does #hold #israel #league #like

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. ↗

— Robert Trout

#company #east #established #india #monopoly

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#believe #good #holders #just #monopoly

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#closed #controls #exception #free #free societies

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#art #comedians #creative #creative people #enough

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

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