Airline Quote by Alfred Kahn

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's…

— James Surowiecki

“Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition does this…

— Frederic Mishkin Mishkin Frederic

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition,…

— Adam Smith

Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic…

— Ludwig Erhard

Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

— George Soros

We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

— Alex Kozinski

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

— Nancy Pearcey

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of…

— Andrew Carnegie

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

— Ludwig von Mises

..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

— Herbert Hoover