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Charles Koch

(1935) Businessperson

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Charles Koch is a businessperson, best known for The Crimea And Odessa.

Quick Facts About Charles Koch

Born: November 1, 1935
Profession: Businessperson
Notable works: The Crimea And Odessa

About Charles Koch

Charles de Ganahl Koch is an American businessman, engineer, and philanthropist. As of May 2025, he is ranked as the 22nd richest man in the world on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with an estimated net worth of US$71.4 billion. Koch has been co-owner, chairman, and chief executive officer of Koch Industries since 1967, while his late brother David Koch served as executive vice president. Charles and David each owned 42% of the conglomerate. The brothers inherited the business from their father, Fred C. Koch, then expanded the business. Koch Industries is the largest privately held company by revenue in the United States, according to Forbes.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Charles Koch

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…

Challenges

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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…

Creating

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

Benefits

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I've been blessed by learning certain principles and values that transformed my life and enabled me to accomplish more than I really…

Ability

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In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly,…

Alternatives

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

Insulting

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I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of…

Achieve

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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…

Biology

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

Has beens

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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…

Benefits

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The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in…

Class

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The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's live better - while using fewer resources - and…

Benefits

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

Ability

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

Life

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You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting…

Brutal

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You've got to learn to work with others. One of my main values is, you learn this system of mutual benefit. That…

Benefits

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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…

Ifs

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

Better way

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Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs…

Business

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

Answers

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Just spreading the money around - that isn't what makes people better off; it's having more and better goods and services.

Better off

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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…

Conceit

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

Firsts

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

Capable

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A university shouldn't be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids…

Comfort

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