Charles Koch Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

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

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

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

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

I like to think that I try to learn something every day, and change my views, modify my views as I learn.

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

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

If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful.

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

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

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

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

I don't believe in a plumb line. I believe in the exchange of ideas.

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

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

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

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

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

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

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