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You can't start taking away benefits if people don't have any opportunities.
Charles Koch
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Charles Koch
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: November 1
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Wichita
Kansas
Charles G. Koch
Charles de Ganahl Koch
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If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much.
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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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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 try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.
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The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the only way Edison could invent the lightbulb is because all the elements had been developed before. That's obvious it wasn't just his genius - 20 others developed it at the same time. And that's true for almost every invention and discovery.
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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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Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.
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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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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 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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To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness isn't to go drink more or consume more. The road to happiness is to fully develop your abilities, and then apply them to do good.
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I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.
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If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just teach one because then the person isn't equipped to deal with the economics profession.
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In America, the first thing we have to get rid of is entitlements for the wealthy, and at the same time, open up the economy 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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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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Everything I give, pretty much, is public. Not every donor wants to - or is willing to get the kind of abuse and attacks that we do, or death threats, so they're not willing to have their names out. I think the other side is pushing for that because they want to intimidate people so they won't oppose it.
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The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
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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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The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.
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