Charles M. Schwab Quotes

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

I'm still fiercely ambitious.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

My three wishes are just be respected out the game. I want respect from everybody. And just make a successful clothing line and company. I'm not going to put a number on it. Just to have a great career.

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good.

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

I have a lot of ambition.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I am still full of ambition.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

I wanted to be the best in the world.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.