Quotes from 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 there used to be.' Neither excuse holds. The first is beside the point; the second is altogether wrong.

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.

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

We make our own labor unions. We organize our labor into units of 300, and then the representatives of these 300 meet together every week. Then every fortnight they meet with the head men.

What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.

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.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 doing with a relish.

The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

We hear much of Bolshevism, much of labor unrest; at times, we hear the word 'revolution.' But these are but contagious diseases in the body of civilization, and I believe that the antitoxins of good cheer, mutual confidence, fairness and justice will ultimately cure these ills and make the world healthy and strong again.

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.

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

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.

If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

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.

I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.

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.

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.