If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.
Charles KochThe problem is, to have prices fall would work fine if we didn't have all these built in rigidities on downward prices, because then things don't adjust, and that's how we have recessions and depressions, is prices and costs don't adjust together and they get out of whack, and we end up with dislocations.
Charles KochWe try to reward people according to the value they create, value they create in society and for the company.
Charles KochI try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.
Charles KochAll 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.
Charles Koch