124 Quotes by Charles Koch

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.

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

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don’t have the power to coerce anybody.

The reason we tend to support Republicans is they’re taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.

If there is wrong, you don’t say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.

For business to survive over a long period, it needs to be contributing to society and people’s well-being. Otherwise, who’s going to want it? Otherwise you end up like Enron or some of these other companies.

Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It’s crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.

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.’

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