1034 A Guide to Financial Freedom & Your Highest Potential w/One of the World’s Richest People: Charles Koch

Everyone has a gift. Everyone can contribute if they're empowered ... That's the secret: Have a society, have institutions, have people that empower others—that enable them to find their gift, turn it into valued skills, and then apply it in a way that enables them to succeed by contributing to others.

If you never make a mistake, it shows you're not trying anything new. You're never going to innovate because if you never fail at anything, you've never tried anything new.

As [Abraham] Maslow said, 'What you can be, you must be. If you're not fully using your capabilities and realizing your potential, you will be miserable—even if you're externally successful.'

If you help others, they're going to help you. If you don't help others, everybody wants you to fail. When you're helping them, they want you to win.

Do you want to exist or live? That's what it's about.