Quotes by Charles Koch

Charles Koch

A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.

Opportunity

Tolerance

Want

A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are greenhouse gases, and they do contribute to warming. But if you look at the last, say, 160 years, the first 80 of that period, they went up about four-tenths of a degree. And now, the second 80 that CO2 has increased by, what, 30 percent or something, it’s gone up five-tenths of a degree. And there’s been in the last 30 or 40 years, there’s been no real increase in storms or bad weather.

Real

Weather

Years

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

Loss

Profit

Profit And Loss

A university shouldn’t be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids of whatever prejudices or preconceptions they have when they come. You’re trying to get them to think and develop, not be a Johnny-one-note.

Kids

Thinking

Trying

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.

Creating Value

Jobs

Names

America was the first country in history to be founded on, people have rights. Not the divine right of kings, not the emperor’s a god, or idolized, or we have to do what the dear leader says. And, expressly, that it’s a system of equal rights, and then governments are instituted to secure those rights.

Country

Kings

Rights

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

Different

Speakers

Students

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.

Leadership

Sacrifice

Success

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.’

Country

Father

Kids

Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you’re on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.

Careers

Hurt

Track

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America

Answers

Attacking

Basic Principles

Believe

Benefits

Best Job

Better Off

Boss

Brother

Business

Care

Careers

Century

Challenges

Class

Cliffs

Competition

Complacency

Corruption

Cost

Country

Creating

Creating Value

Credit

Decision

Depth

Different

Dirty

Discipline

Drink

Earth

Easy

Effort

Ends

Entitlement

Fall

Father

Favors

Firsts

Forever

Government

Guiding Principles

Handy

Helping

Helping Others

Humility

Hurt

Ideas

Ifs

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Quotes by Charles Koch

Charles Koch

A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.

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

A university shouldn’t be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids of whatever prejudices or preconceptions they have when they come. You’re trying to get them to think and develop, not be a Johnny-one-note.

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.

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

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.’

Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you’re on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.

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