132 Quotes by Charles M. Schwab

The man who has done his best has done everything.

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

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.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

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.

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

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.

Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to every one about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

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