Charles M. Schwab Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Boys, Careers, Essentials

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• The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Real, Opportunity, Greatness

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Men, Giving, Failing

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Men, Instance, Knows

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Stars, Men, Average

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Charles M. Schwab

  Mere, My Own, Values

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• It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Running, Passion, Men

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Persistence, Mind, Expansion

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

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  Jobs, Matter, Courses

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Hunting, America, Faithful

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Jobs, Littles, Way

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Men, Done, He Man

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

  Charles M. Schwab

  Overalls, Reluctant

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Men, May, Evening

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Sample

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• Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Jobs, Unemployment, Great Depression

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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.

  Charles M. Schwab

  House, Evening, Steel

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

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  Expansion, Limits, Economy

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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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  Men, Hands, Leader

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Ideas, Might, Becoming

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

  Charles M. Schwab

  Successful, Men, Genius

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Men, Way, Steel

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Kids, Hands, Gloves

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Wealth, Spending

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• I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Management, Labor, Position

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