Charles Koch Quotes

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• The only way you improve is to try new things.

  Charles Koch

  Trying, Way, New Things

  Source: freebeacon.com

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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

  Credit, Care, Limits

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Charles Koch

  Creative, Challenges, Embrace

  Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.80, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.

  Charles Koch

  Progress, Principles, Trouble

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

  Charles Koch

  Humility, Worst Enemy, Complacency

  Source: freebeacon.com

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

  Charles Koch

  Ifs

  Source: freebeacon.com

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

  Charles Koch

  Easy, Results

  Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.

  Charles Koch

  Success, Business, People

  Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

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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.

  Charles Koch

  Taught, Drink, Century

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

  Charles Koch

  Meaningful, Meaningful Work, Values

  Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.154, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  Father, Handy, Knows

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Charles Koch

  People, Vision, Free Society

  "Charles Koch: I'm Fighting to Restore a Free Society". www.wsj.com. April 2, 2014.

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• When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.

  Charles Koch

  Responsibility

  "Charles Koch: Why We Fight for Economic Freedom". www.newsmax.com. August 15, 2012.

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• 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 want it? Otherwise you end up like Enron or some of these other companies.

  Charles Koch

  Long, People, Needs

  "Full interview: Charles Koch". "Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

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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.

  Charles Koch

  Thinking, Views, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

  Charles Koch

  Motivational, Money, Business

  "Koch Responds to Buffett’s Call for Tax Hikes" by Daniel Foster, www.nationalreview.com. August 19, 2011.

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• If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

  Charles Koch

  Children, Opposites, Hypocrisy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Charles Koch

  Principles, Answers, Basic Principles

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My father told me "If you choose to let this money destroy your initiative and independence, then it will be a curse to you and my action in giving it to you will have been a mistake. I shall regret very much to have you miss the glorious feeling of accomplishment. Remember that often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder."

  Charles Koch

  Regret, Mistake, Father

  Source: freebeacon.com

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

  Charles Koch

  People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Charles Koch

  Campaigns, News, Politician

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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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.

  Charles Koch

  Jobs, Philosophy, Mutual Benefit

  "Full interview: Charles Koch". "Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

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• Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

  Charles Koch

  Technology, Perspective, Innovation

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Charles Koch

  Practice, Parent, Great Things

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed.

  Charles Koch

  Responsibility, Government, Self

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