Charles M. Schwab Quotes

I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all they do.

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high.

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.

What am I missing to be the best in the world? Honestly, nothing in terms of quality, just consistency, and that's not arrogance.

Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

Whatever you do, do it well.

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.