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Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to

Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.

Charles Koch
Success, Business, People
Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

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

Charles Koch
Motivational, Money, Business
"Koch Responds to Buffett’s Call for Tax Hikes" by Daniel Foster, www.nationalreview.com. August 19, 2011.

In general, an asset should be sold when it has greater value to a buyer. This happens when a buyer has a complimentary business or capability that would enable them to do more with that business. Many businesses we have exited were not failures, but had simply reached a point in their life cycle where they no longer provided a core capability or served as a platform for growth.

Charles Koch
Business, Growth, Buyers

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

Charles Koch
Business, Agency, Government

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