Charles Schwab Quotes

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.

In college, I was told the market can't be beat.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

One of the first things I tell people is, if you want to learn about investing, you want to open an account and make real investments because that's when it becomes real.

I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter out all of the nonrational, or nonsensible, noise and sort of concentrate on what matters, and that's really what markets are about.

Regardless of how or where you enter Wall Street, use your inherent skills and strengths to succeed.

We shouldn't think anyone needs a Ph.D. in advanced investing in order to begin to invest.

I started trading stocks, options and futures while I was at UCLA, using my earnings from working summers at the old IBM plant on Cottle Road. I never lost interest in how companies work. It's fundamental to who I am.

Today, there's no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer when it comes to managing our finances.

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

You can learn investing by reading books.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.

In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.