Agency Quote by Charles Koch

Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding…

— Charles Koch

It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.

— Joan Robinson

Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small…

— Gore Vidal

Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy.…

— Cory Doctorow

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

— Max McKeown

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.

— Paul Wolfowitz

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your…

— Noam Chomsky

It's harder than ever to build an enduring company. As soon as a product strikes a nerve with customers, competitors emerge globally because the…

— Alfred Lin

We want open markets, rather than a lack of competition resulting in coercion.

— Lina Khan

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

— Gerard Arpey

When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.

— Hank Green

We really don't look at our competitors. The market is big. If you focus too much on competitors, you can lose focus on the…

— Eric Yuan