Charles R. Schwab Quotes
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.
I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.
I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.
The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.
Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'
I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.
The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.
