Charles M. Schwab
American steel executive and president of Bethlehem Steel, 1862-1939
11 quotes.
Quotes by Charles M. Schwab
- All successful employers of labor are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
- 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.
- I have seen men lose important positions, or their reputations—which are more important than any position—by little careless discourtesies to men whom they did not think it was worth while to be kind to.
- Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one’s job as a matter of course.
- Nothing is so plentiful in America as opportunity. There are more jobs for forceful men than there are forceful men to fill them.
- The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.
- The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
- The man who gets the loyalty of his employees is the man who has, first of all, a reputation for fair dealing.
- The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.
- When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
- You cannot make workmen think you are interested in them unless you really are.