Top 100 Charles Schwab Quotes
#1. The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have. - Charles Schwab
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#2. Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
Charles M. Schwab
#3. I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive.
Charles M. Schwab
#4. On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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#5. I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. No question about that. But when something like Dodd-Frank has been created, sort of in the mystery of night, it is a huge document. It's vast. It weighs about 10 pounds when I carry it around.
Charles Schwab
#6. Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.
Charles M. Schwab
#7. The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.
Charles R. Schwab
#9. I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could.
Charles M. Schwab
#10. The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.
Charles M. Schwab
#11. You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.
Charles M. Schwab
#12. If I were asked to say the most important things that lead to a successful life, I should say that, first of all, was integrity - unimpeachable integrity.
Charles M. Schwab
#13. Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that is not possible of accomplishment. The thing to do is to make up your mind what you are going to drive for, and let nothing stand in the way of its ultimate accomplishment.
Charles M. Schwab
#14. 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.
Charles R. Schwab
#15. If there's not enough money in the bank account, you don't spend it.
Charles Schwab
#16. Make your employer feel truthfully that you are sincere with him; that you are going to promote his interest; that you are going to stand for the things which he represents; that you are proud of being a member of his staff, and there is nothing that will reap you a richer reward. Loyalty above all!
Charles M. Schwab
#17. The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.
Charles M. Schwab
#18. The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.
Charles M. Schwab
#19. The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away
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#20. Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.
Charles R. Schwab
#22. In our works at Bethlehem and San Francisco, and all over the United States, I adopted this system: I pay the managers practically no salary. I make them partners in the business, only I don't let them share in the efforts of any other man.
Charles M. Schwab
#23. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#24. 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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#25. Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.
Charles Schwab
#26. For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.
Charles M. Schwab
#27. Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.
Charles R. Schwab
#28. The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. I don't believe in 'super-men,' for the world is full of capable men, but it's the fellow with determination that wins out.
Charles M. Schwab
#29. I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Charles Schwab
#30. One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.
Charles R. Schwab
#31. I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.
Charles M. Schwab
#32. I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. I'd see it in the 'Santa Barbara News-Press.' These prices would change every day - what was that all about?
Charles Schwab
#33. Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.
Charles M. Schwab
#34. I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.
Charles M. Schwab
#35. I'm making better than two million a year, but it's hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I'm getting more value for my dollars than they are.
Charles M. Schwab
#36. We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.
Charles Schwab
#37. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
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#38. If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence you may have. Start upon your own merits, and start in some lowly position, no matter what it is. Be a laborer, if you will. I don't know but that is the best way to start.
Charles M. Schwab
#39. Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.
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#40. 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.
Charles Schwab
#41. 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.
Charles R. Schwab
#42. In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know.
Charles M. Schwab
#43. 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.
Charles R. Schwab
#44. A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles Schwab
#45. What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.
Charles M. Schwab
#47. When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don't hesitate to change, but don't change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future.
Charles M. Schwab
#48. To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.
Charles M. Schwab
#49. When I first went to work ... I had over me an impetuous, hustling man. It was necessary for me to be up to the top notch to give satisfaction. I worked faster than I otherwise would have done, and to him I attribute the impetus that I acquired.
Charles M. Schwab
#50. About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men.
Charles M. Schwab
#51. I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
Charles M. Schwab
#52. Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.
Charles M. Schwab
#53. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#54. You want banks to take some risk, but intelligent risk.
Charles Schwab
#55. The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.
Charles M. Schwab
#56. 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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#57. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#58. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#60. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#61. When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
Charles M. Schwab
#62. Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.
Charles M. Schwab
#63. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#64. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#65. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#66. I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.
Charles R. Schwab
#67. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#68. Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.
Charles M. Schwab
#69. 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.'
Charles R. Schwab
#70. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#71. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#72. In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.
Charles M. Schwab
#73. I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'
Charles M. Schwab
#74. 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?
Charles M. Schwab
#75. 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.
Charles R. Schwab
#76. 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?
Charles R. Schwab
#77. I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.
Charles Schwab
#78. 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.
Charles R. Schwab
#79. 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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#81. One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.
Charles M. Schwab
#82. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#83. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#84. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#86. 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.
Charles Schwab
#87. 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.
Charles R. Schwab
#88. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#89. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#91. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#92. A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
Charles M. Schwab
#93. You've always got to think about having some fixed income in your portfolio as well as equities.
Charles Schwab
#94. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#95. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#96. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#97. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#98. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#99. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
#100. 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.
Charles M. Schwab
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