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One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.
Charles M. Schwab
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Charles M. Schwab
Age: 77 †
Born: 1862
Born: February 18
Died: 1939
Died: September 19
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Williamsburg
Pennsylvania
Charles Schwab
Charles Michael Schwab
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In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
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I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!
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Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.
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The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.
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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.
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Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one's job as a matter of course.
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The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.
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Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.
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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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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.
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Spending creates more wealth for everybody.
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Good morning! Remember: A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.
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Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
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Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
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When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
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The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.
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