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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.

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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Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.
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We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.
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We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.
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That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.
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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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Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.
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Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.
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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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All the corporate welfare, yeah, it goes from cash payments to debt, to regulations on the competitors, to restrictions on trade, to mandates. You name it, anything so that business doesn't have to do a better job of creating value for others - they can just get the system in their favor.
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A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their supporters, it's corporate welfare, it's cronyism which is so destructive, particularly to the disadvantaged.
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They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.
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If we are going to have a Fed, it should not fall into the tyranny of experts with the a fatal conceit that a few wise people can determine interest rates. Interest rates should be driven by the market, and people's time preference, and we see these boom-bust cycles.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much.
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I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.
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