Charles Koch Trying Quotations

Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.

We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that's economical, that can succeed in the marketplace, any form of energy, we're all for. As a matter of fact, we're investing in quite a number of them, ourselves - whether that's ethanol, renewable fuel oil.

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

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

The only way you improve is to try new things.