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 Copy Share Image
We try to reward people according to the value they create, value they create in society and for the company. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I've devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It's those principles, the principles… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's live better - while using fewer resources - and… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
We find that when we make an acquisition, or we have a hiring experience, that's one of the hardest things to change.… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
If you're a leader at any level and your people aren't challenging you, you've got to change that or you can't be a leader… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
You can't start taking away benefits if people don't have any opportunities. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I've been blessed by learning certain principles and values that transformed my life and enabled me to accomplish more than I really had the… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Just Donald Trump's tenor and insulting of people is just beyond the pale. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's live better - while using fewer resources - and to act… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
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