A biography for Charles Schwabhasn’t been written yet.
“I remember very vividly - I wrote about it in one of my books - my first IRA. I contributed $2,000 every year, and in 21 years, the funds in that IRA account grew to $260,000. Seems like sort of a miracle, but it happened.”
“You want banks to take some risk, but intelligent risk.”
“I never knew the word 'billion' when I was a kid.”
“We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.”