20th century Quote by Gabriel Kolko

“The returns from cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy, and by the time of the Civil War, the…

— Edward E. Baptist

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

— Ayn Rand

Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow still expect…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

“As with Britain, growth in the United States started with agriculture. Then, steel, railroads, automobiles, electricity, consumer appliances, telecommunications and chemicals were among the…

— Edward A. Hudson

The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or…

— Ludwig von Mises

Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to…

— Lou Dobbs

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and…

— William McKinley

What became clear is there had been a systemic trend across the U.S… markets had come to be controlled by a very small number…

— Lina Khan

Competition drives growth in the end as opposed to monopolies.

— Dido Harding

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

— Michael Martin Hammer

“The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies and manufacturing…

— Daron Acemoğlu

From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

— Charles Koch