Charles M. Schwab Quotes

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

The true success is to labour.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.

It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.

There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

The common denominator for success is work.

Effort is grossly underrated.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

Without the work, the magic won’t come.

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

The person that works the hardest wins.

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

Whatever success people have in a field, it's a result of hard work. If you ultimately succeed in one place, you must have worked hard there or somewhere else.

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.