<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">“It all started when I was a little boy. One day, my father gave me an apple. I soon sold it for five dollars and bought two apples and sold them for ten. Then I bought four apples and sold them for twenty. Well, this went on day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, until my father died and left me three hundred million dollars!” – <i>The New Yorker</i>, 2010<br><br>That’s how David Koch — of the infamous billionaire Koch Brothers — joked about his success in a 2003 speech to fellow alumni of the exclusive boarding school he attended as a youth.</body></html>