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
country uphill-climbs degrees
We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.
men receiving wages
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.
believe people genius
The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.
real opportunity greatness
The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.
somewhere-else get-away
You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.
opportunity men two
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'.
believe welfare sincere
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.
house steel evening
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.
jobs littles way
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.
men instance knows
I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.
successful men thinking
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
steel
I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.
lunch world would-be
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.
boys careers firsts
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.