I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons. - Harrison Ford
I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man. - Charles M. Schwab
Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time. - Charles M. Schwab
I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not. - Charles M. Schwab
The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing. - Charles M. Schwab
In my own house I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know. Although I had received no technical education I made myself master of chemistry and of the laboratory, which proved of lasting value. - Charles M. Schwab
One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year. - Charles M. Schwab
When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop. - Charles M. Schwab
Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary! - Charles M. Schwab
You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are. - C.S. Lewis
Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks. - Charles M. Schwab
I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down. - Charles M. Schwab
Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment. - Charles M. Schwab
I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments. - Charles M. Schwab
What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product. - Charles M. Schwab
Being smart and doing something that no one has done before are two different things. - Charlie Munger
The difference between a good business and a bad business is that good businesses throw up one easy decision after another. The bad businesses throw up painful decisions time after time. - Charlie Munger
Part of what you must learn is how to handle mistakes and new facts that change the odds. Life, in part, is like a poker game, wherein you have to learn to quit sometimes when holding a much loved hand. - Charlie Munger
Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backward. - Charlie Munger
Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets and can be lost in a heartbeat. - Charlie Munger
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