Charles Michael Schwab was an American steel magnate and a successful entrepreneur. He had served as president of both the Carnegie Steel Company and the United States Steel Corporation and later spearheaded Bethlehem Steel into the second-largest steelmaker in the United States Of America.
Best Charles M. Schwab Quotes
1 – Let us suppose you become a crane man. Suppose you become a clerk in a lawyer’s office. Give the best that is in you. Let nothing stand in the way of your going on. – Charles M. Schwab
2 – The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men. – Charles M. Schwab
3 – Be friends with everybody. When you have friends, you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. – Charles M. Schwab
4 – Make your employer feel truthful that you are sincere with him; that you are going to promote his interest; that you are going to stand for the things which he represents; that you are proud of being a member of his staff, and there is nothing that will reap you a richer reward. Loyalty above all! – Charles M. Schwab
5 – What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones. – Charles M. Schwab
6 – You can make up your mind to do one of two things: You can have a good time in life, or you can have a successful life, but you can’t have both. You have got to make up your mind at the start which of the two you are going to have. – Charles M. Schwab
7 – I mention the need for cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive. – Charles M. Schwab
8 – In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers. – Charles M. Schwab
9 – The supreme need of the world is peace and goodwill among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past. – Charles M. Schwab
10 – About all that is needed to put the world on its feet is the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men. – Schwab Quotes
11 – We hear much of Bolshevism, much of labour unrest; at times, we hear the word ‘revolution.’ But these are but contagious diseases in the body of civilization, and I believe that the antitoxins of good cheer, mutual confidence, fairness and justice will ultimately cure these ills and make the world healthy and strong again. – Charles M. Schwab
12 – I am one of those men who believe that the best workingman ought to have the best pay. – Charles M. Schwab
13 – Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers’ own efforts and through their own efficiency. – Charles M. Schwab
14 – Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labour. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole. – Charles M. Schwab
15 – The fundamental principles of prosperity in every country are so well understood that they need but little if any discussion. They are so simple that with the proper cooperative action the American people collectively can easily place this wonderful country of ours in the position that it is so well qualified to hold among the nations of the world. – Charles M. Schwab
16 – We make our own labour unions. We organize our labour into units of 300, and then the representatives of these 300 meet together every week. Then every fortnight they meet with the headmen. – Charles M. Schwab
17 – I’m making better than two million a year, but it’s hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I’m getting more value for my dollars than they are. – Charles M. Schwab
18 – A concern that produces its own raw materials, and works them up through the various processes until it delivers the manufactured product in the domestic or foreign market, can work on a narrower margin all around, and yet do full justice to its stockholders and employees. – Charles M. Schwab
19 – The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. I don’t believe in ‘super-men,’ for the world is full of capable men, but it’s the fellow with a determination that wins out. – Schwab Quotes
20 – Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time. – Charles M. Schwab
