Charles G. Koch, empresario.

En una entrevista a Charles G. Koch:

For a country to prosper, first, it needs to develop a framework and culture for spontaneous order: people voluntarily cooperate beneficially, without being centrally directed. We must have beneficial rules of just conduct, which is the rule of law uniformly applied. These laws are universally applicable and supersede or obviate the need for bureaucratic rules or instructions. We need cultures in which people don't just tell the boss what he wants to hear. To be successful in a Communist country, you have to bribe, lie, cheat, and steal. These things break down a free market and lead to economic disaster.

Respecto a sus modelos:

The business philosophy has been patterned around writings and history, thinkers such as Mises, Hayek, Polanyi, and Maslow. In personal life, father Fred Koch and colleague Sterling Varner were great influences. In philanthropy, the greatest influence has been Adam Smith. He said that we best promote the public interest, not by trafficking in the [supposed] public good as politicians do, but by promoting our own interest. We can apply MBM to philanthropy when, for example, we don't simply give grain to poor people in Africa and thereby bankrupt their local farmers. The secondary side-effects include keeping the people from becoming self-sufficient. We should help them set up a culture, institutions, and technology to promote self-sufficiency. We should consider all of the secondary side-effects of our so-called philanthropy.

(HT: Arnold Kling)