Charles M. Schwab

In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in…

— Charles M. Schwab

About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the…

— Charles M. Schwab

I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a…

— Charles M. Schwab

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.

— Charles M. Schwab

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done…

— Charles M. Schwab

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

— Charles M. Schwab

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where…

— Charles M. Schwab

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time,…

— Charles M. Schwab

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not…

— Charles M. Schwab

In our works at Bethlehem and San Francisco, and all over the United States, I adopted this system: I pay the managers…

— Charles M. Schwab

If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your…

— Charles M. Schwab

When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a…

— Charles M. Schwab

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after…

— Charles M. Schwab

A concern that produces its own raw materials, and works them up through the various processes until it delivers the manufactured product…

— Charles M. Schwab

The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be…

— Charles M. Schwab

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have…

— Charles M. Schwab

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

— Charles M. Schwab

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how to best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine! Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

— Charles M. Schwab

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be…

— Charles M. Schwab

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

— Charles M. Schwab

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

— Charles M. Schwab

Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in…

— Charles M. Schwab

Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our…

— Charles M. Schwab

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

— Charles M. Schwab

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work…

— Charles M. Schwab

You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe…

— Charles M. Schwab

I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his…

— Charles M. Schwab

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

— Charles M. Schwab

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and…

— Charles M. Schwab

Be friends with everybody. When you have friends, you will know there is somebody who will stand by you.

— Charles M. Schwab

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs…

— Charles M. Schwab

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an…

— Charles M. Schwab

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I…

— Charles M. Schwab

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

— Charles M. Schwab

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than…

— Charles M. Schwab

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.

— Charles M. Schwab

It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the…

— Charles M. Schwab

If I were asked to say the most important things that lead to a successful life, I should say that, first of…

— Charles M. Schwab

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is…

— Charles M. Schwab

Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that…

— Charles M. Schwab