Charles M. Schwab Quotes

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

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

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The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

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

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

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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 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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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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The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

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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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The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

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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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