Margrethe Vestager Quotes
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Consumers depend on us to make sure that competition is fair and open, and it's my responsibility to make that happen.
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If you, as a company, can get a deal that I, as a company, cannot get, you can compete with me but not on the merits, because your tax burden is not the same as mine.
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I think any company should compete on the quality of their products, their prices, the novelty they can produce, their services, because that would be fair competition.
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Few people think about politics every day. But they are in the market every day.
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The benefits of globalization do not trickle down automatically. It takes politics to make sure that there is a benefit.
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Competition is one of the most important drivers of innovation because you have to stay in the race. You have to think of something new, and if you don't, well, of course you should leave the market.
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When I was very young and came into politics, I basically thought ideas would do the trick.
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When a government gives special tax treatment to a few companies, that makes it hard for anyone else to compete on equal terms.
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I know what I need. I don't want people to tell me what I need.
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I think it's a completely good thing to want to do business, to want to make money and be a success in the marketplace, to get the attention of customers. I'm not in the business of pointing fingers or blaming companies, but there is a limit to everything.
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If you want things done, you need to be able to find solutions.
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Very often, I think about the people that I represent. I meet people who have thousands and thousands of employees and millions and millions of customers - and also make a lot of money. But I think about the millions of Europeans that I represent in order to try to balance that so we can meet on more equal terms.
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Dominant companies can't abuse their position to create advantage in related markets.
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If I had a motto, it would be, 'Believe in God, fear the church'.
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Basically, I come to Washington a couple of times a year, sort of on a strictly business basis: talk to my counterparts at the Federal Trade Commission, of the DOJ, give an occasional talk, very often in a lawyer or academic environment.
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I think it is one of the fundamentals, not only of the European Union but also of free trade, that competition is fair.
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To me, a tax heaven is where everyone pays their fair share. In that respect, I am not quite sure we are in tax heaven yet.
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We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.
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Planning is like taking on blinders. I think it is a wise thing to be open to whatever shows up on your doorstep.
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In Europe, we don't only take offence when one company is treating another company in a way that's illegal. We also look at if governments are joining up with companies that makes it more difficult for other companies. We also see that sometimes government actions can make it very difficult for businesses to compete on their merits.
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It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.
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We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.
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You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.
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I have a very strong tool in competitional enforcement: To do merger control, to look into cartels, misuse of dominant position - when member states hand out favors, for instance, in terms of tax breaks. But even though that's a strong tool, it cannot solve everything.