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Praise for THE SCIENCE OF SUCCESS "Evaluating the success of a person or company is like judging a trapper by his pelts. Charles Koch has a lot of pelts. He has built Koch Industries in to the world's most significant privately held company, and this book can be an insider's guide to how he did it. Koch has studied how markets work for many years, and his commitment to pass that knowledge on will inspire entrepreneurs for generations to come."
—T. Boone Pickens "A must-read for entrepreneurs and corporate executives that is also applicable to the wider world. MBM can be an invaluable tool for engendering excellence for everyone groups, from families to nonprofit entities. Government leaders could avoid policy failures by heeding the science of human behavior."
—Richard L. Sharp, Chairman, CarMax "My father, Sam Walton, stressed the value of fundamental principles—such as humility, integrity, respect, and creating value—that will be the foundation for success. No one makes a better case for these principles than Charles Koch."
—Rob Walton, Chairman, Wal-Mart "What accounts for Koch Industries' spectacular success? Charles Koch calls it Market-Based Management: a vision that nurtures personal qualities of humility and integrity that build trust and the confidence to improve future success through learning from failure, and a culture of thinking in conditions of opportunity cost and comparative advantage for all employees."
—Vernon Smith, 2002 Nobel laureate in economics "In an exceedingly thoughtful, creative, and understandable way, Charles Koch explains how he has used the science of human behavior to create a culture that has produced one of the world's most significant and most successful private companies. A must-read for anyone enthusiastic about creating value."
—William B. Harrison Jr., Former Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. "A similar exacting thought, rooted in the realities of human nature, that the framers of the U.S. Constitution put into creating a nation of entrepreneurs, Charles Koch has framed to build an enduring company of entrepreneurs—a firm bigger than Microsoft, Dell, HP, and other giants. Every entrepreneur should study this book."
—Verne Harnish, founder, Young Entrepreneurs' Organization, author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, CEO, Gazelles Inc.
