Charles M. Schwab quote: "Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you."

We hear much of Bolshevism, much of labor unrest; at times, we hear the word 'revolution.' B...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surpri...
CHARLES M SCHWAB

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth gr...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

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

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...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract at...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all togeth...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reache...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - th...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation i...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

The man who has done his best has done everything.
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

There is nothing a worker resents more than to see some man taking his job. A factory can be closed ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. I don't b...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develo...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don't hesitate to change, but don...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop ou...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

In our works at Bethlehem and San Francisco, and all over the United States, I adopted this system: ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

The Bethlehem profit-sharing system is based on my belief that every man should get exactly what he ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under th...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the hum...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or di...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

My own idea is that if the men hold any meetings or attempt to form any organization, we should be p...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming con...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I hav...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprise...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor fi...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interest...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragemen...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of t...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

We make our own labor unions. We organize our labor into units of 300, and then the representatives ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is no...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

The fundamental principles of prosperity in every country are so well understood that they need but ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Make your employer feel truthfully that you are sincere with him; that you are going to promote his ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

When I first went to work... I had over me an impetuous, hustling man. It was necessary for me to be...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

If you are going into any manufacturing establishment, don't go there by reason of any influence...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothin...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objectives. I replied that if a man ever rea...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

A concern that produces its own raw materials, and works them up through the various processes until...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road t...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this cou...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reac...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend wh...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

You can make up your mind to do one of two things: You can have a good time in life, or you can have...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

If I were asked to say the most important things that lead to a successful life, I should say that, ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; the other, ...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB

You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your d...
CHARLES SCHWAB

As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand wha...
CHARLES SCHWAB

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

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth gr...
CHARLES SCHWAB

There was a guy by the name of Charles Schwab: actually, Charles M. Schwab. I read a lot about him, ...
CHARLES SCHWAB

Sometimes my mistake has been hesitancy about acting on the decisions I've made. When's the ...
CHARLES SCHWAB

I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. ...
CHARLES SCHWAB

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all togeth...
CHARLES SCHWAB

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

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
CHARLES SCHWAB

I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn't going to Wal-Mart, buying a fla...
CHARLES SCHWAB

On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grand...
CHARLES SCHWAB

I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold...
CHARLES SCHWAB

I remember very vividly - I wrote about it in one of my books - my first IRA. I contributed $2,000 e...
CHARLES SCHWAB

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them al...
CHARLES SCHWAB

When I was 14, I did all kinds of different odd jobs. I had a chicken farm, had an ice cream operati...
CHARLES SCHWAB

I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. ...
CHARLES SCHWAB

I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and...
CHARLES SCHWAB

I never knew the word 'billion' when I was a kid.
CHARLES SCHWAB

I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I di...
CHARLES SCHWAB

For as little as a thousand dollars, you can open an account at Schwab. I mean, it's not a big b...
CHARLES SCHWAB

Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.
CHARLES SCHWAB

You want banks to take some risk, but intelligent risk.
CHARLES SCHWAB

You've always got to think about having some fixed income in your portfolio as well as equities.
CHARLES SCHWAB

I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been o...
CHARLES SCHWAB

We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came ou...
CHARLES SCHWAB

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
CHARLES SCHWAB

If there's not enough money in the bank account, you don't spend it.
CHARLES SCHWAB

Our ongoing investments in people, technology and our brand may cause our profit margin for the seco...
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP

Chairman Levitt is advocating a responsible approach to investing. Whether you are investing via the...
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP

The significant increase in 1999 planned expenditures is primarily due to the company's plans to enh...
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP

It is really a wonderful thing. And as more people adapt to it, it's going to be a bigger thing.
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP

While it's not the primary reason, because the number is not enormous, we look carefully at every pe...
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP

Given rising public concerns over identity theft and cyber-fraud, we think adding a clear and simple...
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP

Schwab is now focused on forging a new era of profitable growth by developing stronger relationships...
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP

Total client assets were a record $1.246 trillion as of month-end January, up 17% percent from Janua...
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP

I'm immensely proud of the way the Schwab team pulled together in 2005 and delivered such outstandin...
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure ...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

No problem is too big to run away from.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only ...
CHARLES M. BLOW

Whatever the challenge, never quit, never give up, never surrender.
CHARLES M. GRIST

When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed, The little ...
CHARLES M. DICKINSON

They are idols of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise; His sunlight s...
CHARLES M. DICKINSON

I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done, But that life may have j...
CHARLES M. DICKINSON

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about re...
CHARLES M. DICKINSON

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
CHARLES M. DICKINSON

When God created two sexes, he may have been overdoing it.
CHARLES M. SMITH

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he wa...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Happiness is a warm puppy.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I think we place the wrong emphasis upon examples, that we're treading on very weak ground when we s...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Don't worry about what to wear today, your smile goes with any clothes.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I think I've discovered the secret of life, you just hang around until you get used to it.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

You never run out of things that can go wrong.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The ...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
CHARLES M. ALLEN

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
CHARLES M. SCHULTZ

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This i...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
CHARLES M. DICKINSON

The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod: I have taught them the good...
CHARLES M. DICKINSON

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love ...
CHARLES M. BLOW

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There&#...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all pe...
CHARLES M. BLOW

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who lov...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me,...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an...
CHARLES M. BLOW

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for t...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability fo...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a ...
CHARLES M. BLOW

My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless da...
CHARLES M. BLOW

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and underst...
CHARLES M. BLOW

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so litt...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. ...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.
CHARLES M. BLOW

The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning o...
CHARLES M. BLOW

I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' ...
CHARLES M. BLOW

I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charl...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Mostly friends of mine, like my friend Charlie Brown, ... He and I worked together at the art instru...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.
CHARLES M. RUSSELL

Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Blac...
CHARLES M. BLOW

While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to ref...
CHARLES M. BLOW

Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The f...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.
CHARLES M. RUSSELL

Rats! There goes the bell... oh, how I hate lunch hours! I always have to eat alone because nobody l...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I h...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false t...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Aren't the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton... I could just lie here all day, an...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

You know, in a way, 'Dear Santa Claus' is rather stuffy... Perhaps something a little more intimate ...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

I have always wanted to be a cartoonist, and I feel very blessed to have been able to do what I love...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

wonderful support and love.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy ... how can I ever forget them ...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives ...
CHARLES M. ALLEN

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set o...
CHARLES M. LICHENSTEIN

St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly wh...
CHARLES M. MADIGAN

Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRS (video recorders), and we could "fast forward' throu...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

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Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

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