132 Quotes by Charles M. Schwab

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.

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.

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

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.

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

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

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.

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.

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business; the trailer seldom goes far.