Charles M. Schwab

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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
Collection: Men
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Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!
- Charles M. Schwab
Collection: Overalls
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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.
- Charles M. Schwab
Collection: Men
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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
Collection: Thinking
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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
Collection: Jobs
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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
Collection: House
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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.
- Charles M. Schwab
Collection: Men
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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
Collection: Ideas
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I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'
- Charles M. Schwab
Collection: Successful
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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
Collection: Men
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Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.
- Charles M. Schwab
Collection: Kids
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Spending creates more wealth for everybody.
- Charles M. Schwab
Collection: Wealth