Charles M. Schwab, congratulated in Pittsburgh on a large war order contract which he had just received from one of the warring nations, said:
Some people call it luck, but they are mistaken. Whatever success I have is due to hard work and not to luck.
I remember a New York business man who crossed the ocean with me one winter when the whole country was suffering from hard times.
'And you. Mr. Schwab,' the New Yorker said, 'are, like the rest of us,
I suppose, hoping for better things?'
'No, my friend,' I replied. 'No, I am not hoping for better things.
I've got my sleeves rolled up and I'm working for them.'