Charles Koch Quotes

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Always challenge the old ways.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

To innovate is not to reform.

This is the age of disruption.

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

I love challenging the status quo.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Modernity is not a problem to be overcome but a challenge to be met.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.