Charles Koch Quotes

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

Charles Koch

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• In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Different
  • American
  • Lost

• The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Colonial

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Think
  • Forget
  • Try

• I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Winning

• My most joy that I have is dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Joy
  • Dancing
  • Most

• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Past
  • Bible
  • Face

• I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Career
  • Man
  • Amazing

• Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Look
  • Appearance

• Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • Children
  • Family

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Time
  • Nice

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Single
  • Effort

• I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movies
  • Down
  • Million

• There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Small
  • Always
  • Same

• I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Feel
  • Belong

• The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Information
  • Speed

• But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

  

  Don Nickles

• I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently.

  

  Dannii Minogue
  • Time
  • Done
  • Running

• We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place; the last thing we were going to do is lay them off.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Way
  • Company
  • Apple

• I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Business