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

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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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I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.
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There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning profits in the economy, such businesses can continue to succeed even if they are squandering resources and making products that people wouldn't ordinarily buy.
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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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But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.
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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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I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.
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We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it.
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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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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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For business to survive over a long period, it needs to be contributing to society and people's well-being. Otherwise, who's going to want it? Otherwise you end up like Enron or some of these other companies.
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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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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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Innovation doesn't come from one big thing, it comes from a piece at a time, from combining existing technology. We have in a sense a stagnation, in all those areas where we have cronyism and political correctness and the precautionary principle. Get all of those together, then yeah, you have stagnation, and that's what we're seeing.
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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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If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much.
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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 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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If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.
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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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No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful.
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