Charles M. Schwab

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to…

— 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

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

Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he…

— 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

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

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

American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite…

— Charles M. Schwab

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

— Charles M. Schwab

My own idea is that if the men hold any meetings or attempt to form any organization, we should be prepared to…

— Charles M. Schwab

Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.

— 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

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

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

I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men…

— Charles M. Schwab

Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their…

— Charles M. Schwab

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

— Charles M. Schwab

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

— Charles M. Schwab

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today…

— Charles M. Schwab

Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of…

— 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

If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out…

— Charles M. Schwab

The truth is that we have hitherto made no genuine effort to produce forged steel working parts of automobiles of the highest…

— 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

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely…

— Charles M. Schwab