I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.
Charles KochWe try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.
Charles KochOur system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.
Charles KochEmbrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.
Charles KochPeople are interested in certain ideas, in certain periods, and then that moves, and okay, now people are more interested in studying this, and there is no perfect balance, and how would you know what the perfect balance is? I mean, what does it mean to have too many Beethoven chairs and too few Stravinsky chairs? I mean, that's kind of a value judgment that isn't really based on humility. We don't know what the optimum number is, so let people figure this out on their own. People are more interested in Beethoven than Stravinsky? Great! Why would that bother me?
Charles KochEconomy is so riddled with corporate welfare and anti-competitive regulations, anti-innovation regulations. Regulations that are destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged, which is creating this two-tiered system we're headed for which has which is destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged and creating welfare for the wealthy.
Charles Koch