Charles M. Schwab Quotes

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

Good morning! Remember: A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to every one about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop.

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary!

Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are.

Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.