Charles Koch Quotes

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.

Charles Koch

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• Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Competition
  • Need

• If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Live
  • True
  • Knowledge

• I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Competition

• I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Money
  • Job
  • Competition

• My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Women

• In a world with weak aggregate demand, countries are engaging in a futile competition for a greater share of it. In the process, they are creating financial-sector and cross-border risks that will become increasingly apparent as countries exit their unconventional policies.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Financial
  • Competition

• America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • America
  • Growth
  • Period

• By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Party

• The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Want
  • Competition

• Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Competition
  • Senior
  • Citizen

• Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Competition

• Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Decision

• I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Surprise

• I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Up
  • Competition
  • Everyday

• I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Never
  • Competition
  • Give

• In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Up
  • Important
  • Live

• A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Competition
  • Environmental

• I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

  

  Otis Redding
  • People
  • Love
  • Nice

• It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Evil

• In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them.

  

  John le Carre
  • Up
  • May
  • Present

• I'm 40 now. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • House

• Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

  

  Hal Abelson
  • People

• When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Competition