Charles M. Schwab Quotes

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

People will trust you a lot more if you show them you care about them besides basketball. It's deeper.

No lies, just love.

My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.

I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

These are the two sides of Steven Spielberg: the reverent grown-up who knows when to say the right thing and the exuberant kid who loves a good laugh. Both sides are sincere, and both are necessary, for Spielberg knows he can't feel good about himself unless everyone else feels the same way.

For me, it's common sense to treat other people like you would like to be treated. Empathy is a broad concept, but how do you get there? People get there differently. I get there by truly building a little trust and connection. You'll tell me something, I'll act on it, and then that builds on itself.

Voters are okay with you believing something they don't believe, as long as they think you genuinely believe it, and you believe it because you care about them.

I like to see the joy in people's' faces. I like to see when they actually question that I'm not afraid to answer and give them my respect and honesty with what I have to say to them.

People need to see the authentic people that are still out there, the genuine people that really care.

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

Humility is truth.

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

I'm not sure if I've learned anything from show business. Life in general has taught me if you're kind to people, everything gets easier. Being a decent person really smoothes the way for you and everyone else.

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.