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Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.

Charles Koch

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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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Repeatedly asking for government help undermines the foundations of society by destroying initiative and responsibility. It is also a fatal blow to efficiency and corrupts the political process.
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Best part of my job is fulfillment. When I see that, that we're creating value, that we're helping improve people's lives, and we benefit from it, so it's a system of mutual benefit. Our philosophy's working. That's what turns me on. That's what keeps me going.
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My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.
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I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.
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You'll remember Newton was furious at Leibniz, because he developed calculus at the same time. And he went to his death believing that he had copied him. And no, it's because all the elements were there, so it's almost inevitable that the next discovery - as long as people are free and allowed to experiment and try new things.
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Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.
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Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.
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The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.
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Why I've never been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kicking and screaming, because I don't think politicians are going to reverse the trajectory of this country. I think it's going to depend on the American people understanding what is fair and what makes their lives better.
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I think this is so important - what's not done well at education at every level - is helping kids find, as I discovered for myself, what I was good at. I was very lucky to find out that at an early age, which set my direction in life.
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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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That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.
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Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.
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I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.
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I like to think that I try to learn something every day - and change my views, modify my views as I learn.
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I think our biggest problem in society is we're headed more and more toward a two-tiered society. That is, creating welfare for the wealthy and destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged.
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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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The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.
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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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