Charles Koch Quotes - Page 6

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• The problem is, to have prices fall would work fine if we didn't have all these built in rigidities on downward prices, because then things don't adjust, and that's how we have recessions and depressions, is prices and costs don't adjust together and they get out of whack, and we end up with dislocations.

  Charles Koch

  Fall, Together, Cost

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You'll remember Newton was furious at Leibniz, because he developed calculus at the same time. And he went to his death believing that he had copied him. And no, it's because all the elements were there, so it's almost inevitable that the next discovery - as long as people are free and allowed to experiment and try new things.

  Charles Koch

  Believe, Discovery, Long

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever, just like everybody thought Newton had all the answers. And you probably read that, in the last of the 19th century, Harvard and others were discouraging people from going into physics because we have all the answers. And right after that, of course - we have - all this stuff is thrown out the window. And now we have whole new answers.

  Charles Koch

  People, Forever, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What we need to work on is how to increase productivity. And then everybody will be better off.

  Charles Koch

  Needs, Increase, Better Off

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think this is so important - what's not done well at education at every level - is helping kids find, as I discovered for myself, what I was good at. I was very lucky to find out that at an early age, which set my direction in life.

  Charles Koch

  Kids, Thinking, Important

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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.

  Charles Koch

  People, Goods And Services, Goods

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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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• Both my parents were a tremendous influence on me. My father's influence came from - he decided well, probably before we were born that as he put it, 'I'm not going to have any kids who are country club bums.'

  Charles Koch

  Country, Father, Kids

  Source: freebeacon.com

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

  Charles Koch

  Past, Libertarian, My Past

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

  Charles Koch

  Way, Poverty, Principles

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

  Charles Koch

  Leader, Depth, Way

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• 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

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• Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

  Charles Koch

  Business, Agency, Government

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