Charles M. Schwab
Charles M. Schwab
Charles Michael Schwabwas an American steel magnate. Under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth18 February 1862
CountryUnited States of America
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I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments.
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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 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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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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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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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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Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary!
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A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
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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.
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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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In our works at Bethlehem and San Francisco, and all over the United States, I adopted this system: I pay the managers practically no salary. I make them partners in the business, only I don't let them share in the efforts of any other man.
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Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?
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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.
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The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.