Charles Schwab Quotes

I think life is a learning lesson within itself. I think you should take the best out of everything that you see and that you encounter and make the best of it.

I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

My dad is an amazing human being. He - just a hard worker. Just that thing you think about with, like, just anyone who comes this country - that's my dad. He can do anything. Not just at work - comes home, he can cook, he can clean, fix the toilet, fix the car. He learned all these jobs just so he'd never have to pay another man.

I take each thing as it comes and try and give it 110 per cent - it's just a blessing to be able to do different things.

If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.

I'm not fussy at all; I've been raised to adjust myself in any circumstance.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.

I think that sometimes you don't have the opportunities for some of the most A-list-type movies, big-budget movies. But I think it's important to keep working and make the best of what's available. Because otherwise, what? Are you just going to get bitter and moan? What does my mom always say? "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

I think I'm very good at adjusting to anything and to any situation, and if you are good at being in the moment and adjusting, you can actually have a clear vision of what to do with things or how to do things.

You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

I've lived a little bit and traveled the world and experienced a lot of things that I can play any role, and I think I can get into stuff that people never thought I would ever do because of my experiences and growth as a person.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

Play hard, learn as much as I can and do what I do best. The rest will take care of itself I think.

I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.