Charles Koch

Just Donald Trump's tenor and insulting of people is just beyond the pale.

— Charles Koch

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

— Charles Koch

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

— Charles Koch

If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much.

— Charles Koch

I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.

— Charles Koch

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

— Charles Koch

We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.

— Charles Koch

People should only profit to the extent they make other peoples lives better.

— Charles Koch

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?'…

— Charles Koch

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and…

— Charles Koch

My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."

— Charles Koch

Koch companies employ 60,000 Americans, who make many thousands of products that Americans want and need.

— Charles Koch

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

— Charles Koch

I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and…

— Charles Koch

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

— Charles Koch

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

— Charles Koch

The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money…

— Charles Koch

When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals…

— Charles Koch

My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive…

— Charles Koch

I get a lot of death threats. But the way I look at it, I feel I have a moral obligation to…

— Charles Koch

Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to…

— Charles Koch

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…

— Charles Koch

Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax…

— Charles Koch

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can…

— Charles Koch

As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that…

— Charles Koch

We create these boom-bust cycles by manipulating the money supply and the interest rates and directing it where it went in. And…

— Charles Koch

Putting aside all the things that are said about Hillary [Clinton], my main difference with her is on the vision of what…

— Charles Koch

My philosophy, one of the biggest enemies of future success is past success, because you become complacent, you become risk averse, and…

— Charles Koch

A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are…

— Charles Koch

I don't like the idea of capitalism anyway. Because it's not capital we are talking about; it's knowledge and creating well-being. Because…

— Charles Koch

What hermeneutics teaches is that progress comes from being exposed to different points of views because there's no point of view that…

— Charles Koch

Let's say I am a chocoholic and I eat tons of chocolate a day. A hundred thousands of tons a day. I…

— Charles Koch

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value,

— Charles Koch

That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.

— Charles Koch

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

— Charles Koch

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

— Charles Koch

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

— Charles Koch

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

— Charles Koch

You can't start taking away benefits if people don't have any opportunities.

— Charles Koch

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

— Charles Koch