Kochland Quotes

“One of the key lessons that Charles Koch took from the Austrian economists von Mises and Hayek was that markets never stood still. The status quo never survived. Markets always build up and then tear down. It was an evolutionary process that never ended, and companies that tried to fight the process would only be devoured by the forces of change in the end.”
― Christopher Leonard, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

“vocabulary of Market-Based Management. One of Charles Koch’s indisputable accomplishments over the preceding”
― Christopher Leonard, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

“Market-Based Management, or MBM as they call it. Charles Koch says the philosophy is a blueprint for achieving prosperity and freedom.”
― Christopher Leonard, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

“Every employee must embrace Charles Koch’s highly detailed philosophy called Market-Based Management.”
― Christopher Leonard, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

“The whale that comes above sea level gets harpooned,”
― Christopher Leonard, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

“Most poisonous of all was the feeling of dashed expectations.”
― Christopher Leonard, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

“At Charles Koch’s direction, the company had filled whole rooms of its basement with computers and processing power, the ability to churn and analyze mountains of information. Koch built a company around learning. Charles believed there were quantifiable laws that drove the world, unbreakable laws that were true whether a person believed in them or not. These laws were the principles by which he tried to live and run his business. He never doubted these principles, even in the darkest days of the late 1990s. The principles had been correct. He had simply made mistakes in carrying them out. So he would do better. His solution was simple: “I just work harder.”
― Christopher Leonard, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

“miasma”
― Christopher Leonard, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

“He was also the father of four rowdy and brilliant boys, boys in whom he’d worked to instill the values that mattered most to him: intelligence, a hard work ethic, integrity, and drive.”
― Christopher Leonard, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America