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  • Businessman
  • born 1935
  • 159 quotes

Charles Koch, a businessman (born 1935), is quoted 159 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are People, Trying, Way and Believe.

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The only way you improve is to try new things.

I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity.

That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.

If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much.

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

I don't believe in a plumb line. I believe in the exchange of ideas.

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

Just Donald Trump's tenor and insulting of people is just beyond the pale.

You can't start taking away benefits if people don't have any opportunities.

People should only profit to the extent they make other peoples lives better.

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.

We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.

How do we make people's lives better unless we find the truth of what works and what doesn't?

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

What we need to work on is how to increase productivity. And then everybody will be better off.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

Koch companies employ 60,000 Americans, who make many thousands of products that Americans want and need.

I like to think that I try to learn something every day - and change my views, modify my views as I learn.

The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.

We try to reward people according to the value they create, value they create in society and for the company.

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.

I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

Just spreading the money around - that isn't what makes people better off; it's having more and better goods and services.

My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."

They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.

I've always believed in the saying that "there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.

All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.

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

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.

Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

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