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Charles de Ganahl Koch (/koʊk/; born November 1, 1935) is an American businessman, political donor and philanthropist. As of March 2018, he was ranked as the 6th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $60.8 billion.

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Our vision controls the way we think and, therefore, the way we act the vision we have of our jobs determines what we do and the opportunities we see or don't see.

Controls, Jobs, Opportunity, See, Think, Thinking

A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their supporters, it's corporate welfare, it's cronyism which is so destructive, particularly to the disadvantaged.

Office, Republican, Welfare, Rhetoric, Pretty

I've devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It's those principles, the principles of free society, that have shaped my life, my family, our company, and America.

America, Lives, People, Society, Understanding

Just spreading the money around - that isn't what makes people better off; it's having more and better goods and services.

People, Goods And Services, Goods, Having, Spreading

The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.

Fewer, Integrity, Lives, Provide, Resources, Roles

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

Needs, Increase, Better Off, Work, Everybody

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.

Forever, Love, People, Trying, Whole, Window

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.

Advance, Classical, Opens, Opportunity, Tolerance, Want

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

People, Truth, Unless, Works, Make, Lives

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

Country, Create, Expressed, People, Philosophy

I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and all Americans. And I wish the same for every nation on earth.

Wish, Legacy, Earth, Greater, Freedom, Life

My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy. "

Come, Father, Handy, Knows, Learn

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.

Change, Creation, Guiding Principles, Humility, Integrity, Respect

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.

Competitors, Creating Value, Environmental, Jobs, Produce, Safe Environment

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

Everyone, Gets, Nothing, Producing, Responsibility

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

Beginning, Competition, Gotten, Government, Make, Political

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

Children, Faster, Hypocrisy, Opposites, Preach

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

Different, Down, Shout, Speaker, Speakers, Students

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, Jobs, Names, Payments, Regulations, System

Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.

Free, Government, People, Political, Produces, Subsidies

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