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

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Charles Koch
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: November 1
Businessman
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Wichita
Kansas
Charles G. Koch
Charles de Ganahl Koch
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In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.
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Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you're on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.
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Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.
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If you've got a dirty job, the best way is to help each other and then you'll create this culture of mutual benefit. And then you've got to understand who your customer is and create value for them and so on.
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All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.
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We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.
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We find that when we make an acquisition, or we have a hiring experience, that's one of the hardest things to change. If you've been working for a company where you didn't dare challenge your boss, or what's politically correct in the company, then it affects your career.
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You can pay certain people more money and stuff but that's just going to be a transfer from one group to another. The only way people's wages are going to rise overall, or average median income is going to rise, is if you increase productivity.
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Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.
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My father would always say learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy.
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