Kenneth Lay Quotes

The best way for you to keep Government out of your business is to promote competition.

I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.

There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

Free prices are the price of freedom.

I’m a big fan of the free market system but the free market system works [only] when you have robust competition.

The best industrial policy is competition.

With less regulation, I think you would see growth come back. Of course, there are situations where you need regulation. Antitrust regulation, for example, is a good idea because you want competition. But beyond that, it gets very difficult.

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very clear. They would love to have government just get out of the way and allow companies to compete, whether in their particular sectors or other sectors. They are true believers in small government.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

What's awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to keep paying them.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.

The only way you can stop the unregulated monopoly ... from gouging ... is to introduce competition.

Demanding freedom of access to other markets isn't protectionism, it's free trade.

I am firmly opposed to the Government entering any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens.

It must become a nation of free traders, which would throw open its ports to the world, and prove to European nations that the colonial system of restriction and monopoly was founded on delusion

Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.