As smart as Charles Koch was as an engineer and entrepreneur, socially he was not very adept; he would not marry until he was forty-one years old. With the business booming and nothing much else to take up his time other than what he called a “compulsion” to learn how the world worked, he devoted more and more of his time to reading books and articles that would enhance his “understanding [of] the principles that lead to prosperity and societal progress.” He restricted his study in only one way: to thinkers who believed as he did that the foundation upon which prosperity and social progress
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