Charles Koch Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• 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.

• 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

• You've got to learn to work with others. One of my main values is, you learn this system of mutual benefit. That is, if you shirk and you try to make the other guy do more, he's going to do that to you.

  Charles Koch

  Mutual Benefit, Guy, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• We strive to hire and retain only those who embrace our MBM® Guiding Principles, which encompass integrity, compliance, value creation, Principled Entrepreneurship, customer focus, knowledge, change, humility, respect and fulfillment.

  Charles Koch

  Integrity, Humility, Guiding Principles

• 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

• In general, an asset should be sold when it has greater value to a buyer. This happens when a buyer has a complimentary business or capability that would enable them to do more with that business. Many businesses we have exited were not failures, but had simply reached a point in their life cycle where they no longer provided a core capability or served as a platform for growth.

  Charles Koch

  Business, Growth, Buyers

• We try to reward people according to the value they create, value they create in society and for the company.

  Charles Koch

  People, Trying, Rewards

  Source: freebeacon.com

• If you've got a dirty job, the best way is to help each other and then you'll create this culture of mutual benefit. And then you've got to understand who your customer is and create value for them and so on.

  Charles Koch

  Jobs, Dirty, Mutual Benefit

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I try to build on our management philosophy. I try to understand what the threats and opportunities are for us. Uh, I try to make sure that we're driving innovation and creative destruction hard enough so we're not blindsided, and that our attitude is to, in starting any initiative, any business, is to focus on how we can create value for others, rather than how we maximize profit, because you can make money focusing on, "How do I maximize profit?"

  Charles Koch

  Attitude, Philosophy, Opportunity

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

• My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.

  Charles Koch

  Integrity, Humility, Parent

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.

  Charles Koch

  Creating Value, Bucks, Customers

  Interview with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

• 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 ability to do or ever dream possible. And so I decided that I wanted to give as many other people as possible the opportunity to learn these ideas and transform their lives as I had.

  Charles Koch

  Dream, Blessed, Opportunity

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.

  Charles Koch

  Success, Leadership, Sacrifice

• So to the best we can, what we do is focus on creating value for others, and how do we do that? We do it by trying to produce products and services that our customers will value more than their alternatives, and not just their alternatives today, but what the alternatives will be in the future. We try to more efficiently use resources than our competitors, and constantly improve in that, and we try to do the best job we can in creating a safe environment, and environmental excellence, and constantly improve at that.

  Charles Koch

  Jobs, Safe Environment, Best Job

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

• 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.

  Charles Koch

  Creating Value, People, Information

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Charles Koch

  Creating, Trying, Rewards

• My philosophy, one of the biggest enemies of future success is past success, because you become complacent, you become risk averse, and that's one of the things we try to drive here, and this is fundamental to this philosophy, and that's in this component change, and also in value creation. That we need to drive creative destruction, not just incremental innovations, but innovations that will change the whole nature of the business.

  Charles Koch

  Philosophy, Past, Creative

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

• I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.

  Charles Koch

  Humility, People, Challenges

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• 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.

• People are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and there is no perfect balance, and how would you know what the perfect balance is? I mean, what does it mean to have too many Beethoven chairs and too few Stravinsky chairs? I mean, that's kind of a value judgment that isn't really based on humility. We don't know what the optimum number is, so let people figure this out on their own. People are more interested in Beethoven than Stravinsky? Great! Why would that bother me?

  Charles Koch

  Moving, Mean, Humility

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I learned that unless you start working, if you're frozen out of work, you will never learn the habits, the discipline, the values of cooperation and improvement unless you get a job, and that's what statistic show. It's, unless you get a job and keep it, you will not get out of poverty. If you do, you have a very good chance of working out of poverty.

  Charles Koch

  Jobs, Discipline, Work Out

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

• All the corporate welfare, yeah, it goes from cash payments to debt, to regulations on the competitors, to restrictions on trade, to mandates. You name it, anything so that business doesn't have to do a better job of creating value for others - they can just get the system in their favor.

  Charles Koch

  Jobs, Names, Creating Value

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise, you'll think you're a lot smarter than you are.' But he had tremendous values, tremendous integrity, humility, work ethic and terrific thirst for knowledge.

  Charles Koch

  Father, Integrity, Humility

  Source: freebeacon.com

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