Charles M. Schwab Quotes
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If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.
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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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A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.
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A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
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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.
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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. Although I had received no technical education I made myself master of chemistry and of the laboratory, which proved of lasting value.
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In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, 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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American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable. And yet one man emerges from the mass, rises sheer about his fellows; and the rest remain.
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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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You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.
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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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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.
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The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.
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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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Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
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There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
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The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.
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A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
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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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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.
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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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Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary!
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The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'.
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If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.
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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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We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.
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The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
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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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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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Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!
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