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Charles M. Schwab

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    Charles M. Schwab

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

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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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    Charles M. Schwab

    A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

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    Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

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    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.

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    Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

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    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.

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    Good morning! Remember: A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.

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

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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.

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    I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

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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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    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.

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    I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

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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.

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

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    Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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    The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

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    The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

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    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.

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

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

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

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    The truth is that we have hitherto made no genuine effort to produce forged steel working parts of automobiles of the highest quality. That is one of the reasons why our automobiles have not ranked with those of foreign make.

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    We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

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    What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.

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

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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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    Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

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    You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.

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    You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are.

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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.