Top 64 Charles R Schwab Quotes
#1. I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.
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#2. A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
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#3. As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.
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#5. I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.
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#6. I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in upbuilding their country - the men who have contributed to the efficiency and happiness of their fellow men.
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#7. The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
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#8. I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been on, I've had a lot of passion behind it. It continues to motivate me every day on what I like to do and where I'm going.
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#10. Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.
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#13. One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.
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#15. As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.
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#16. I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life.
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#17. You've always got to think about having some fixed income in your portfolio as well as equities.
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#18. I have yet to find the person, 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.
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#19. For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.
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#20. Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.
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#21. I remember very vividly - I wrote about it in one of my books - my first IRA. I contributed $2,000 every year, and in 21 years, the funds in that IRA account grew to $260,000. Seems like sort of a miracle, but it happened.
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#22. There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.
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#23. Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.
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#24. The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.
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#25. The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.
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#26. We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.
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#27. At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that's the largest source of business. I don't care what kind of business you're in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do.
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#28. Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.
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#29. One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.
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#30. I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.
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#31. Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
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#33. The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.
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#34. The word passive does a disservice to investors considering their options. Indexing provides an effective means of owning the market and allows investors to participate in the returns of a basket of stocks. The basket of stocks changes over time as stocks are added or removed based on its rules.
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#35. Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?
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#36. I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'
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#37. In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.
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#38. 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.
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#39. The truth is that we have hitherto made no genuine effort to produce forged steel working parts of automobiles of the highest quality. That is one of the reasons why our automobiles have not ranked with those of foreign make.
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#40. Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'
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#41. Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.
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#42. Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole.
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#43. I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.
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#44. Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.
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#45. I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.
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#46. The Bethlehem profit-sharing system is based on my belief that every man should get exactly what he makes himself worth. This is the only plan I know of which is equally fair to the employers and every class of employee. Someday, I hope, all labor troubles will be solved by such a system.
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#47. Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.
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#48. When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
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#49. It's fun to play around ... it's human nature to try to select the right horse ... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer ... The predictability is so high ... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?
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#51. The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.
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#52. Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.
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#53. Sometimes my mistake has been hesitancy about acting on the decisions I've made. When's the best time to invest? It's today, not tomorrow.
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#54. The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.
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#55. You want banks to take some risk, but intelligent risk.
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#56. The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.
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#57. The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.
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#58. 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.
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#59. I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.
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#60. Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.
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#61. A concern that produces its own raw materials, and works them up through the various processes until it delivers the manufactured product in the domestic or foreign market, can work on a narrower margin all around, and yet do full justice to its stockholders and employees.
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#62. 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.
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#63. A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
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#64. 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.
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