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You've got to learn to work with others. One of my main values is, you learn this system of mutual benefit. That is, if you shirk and you try to make the other guy do more, he's going to do that to you.
Charles Koch
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Charles Koch
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: November 1
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Charles G. Koch
Charles de Ganahl Koch
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I'd like to see a rebirth of America - go back where there's equal rights for everybody and that people succeed to the extent that they help other people improve their lives. To lead toward a society that maximizes peace, civility, and well-being for everyone.
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Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.
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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.
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Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.
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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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We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.
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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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