all right. i don t consider myself a journalist. and, nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? we are here today with chuck schwab, one of the best-known figures in the american business world, certainly has been so over the last several decades because of his ubiquitous face and his ads, but also because of the great company he has built, which is one of the leading financial service companies in the united states. he has now just written a book, called invested by charles schwab and i want to talk about that and his life, which is incredible. let me start by asking about something you made news with just recently. your company announced you are not just going to do discount brokerage, you are going to give away brokerage for free. in other words, if i want to buy some stock, i call
david: well, people wouldn t recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. i don t consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? we re here today with chuck schwab, who s one of the best-known figures in the american business world, certainly has been so over the last several decades because of his ubiquitous face and his ads, but also because of the great company he s built, which is one of the leading financial service companies in the united states. he s now just written a book, called invested, by charles schwab, and i want to talk about that and his life, which is incredible. let me start by asking about something you made news with just recently. your company announced you re not just going to do discount brokerage. you
alright. i don t consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? we re here today with chuck schwab, who s one of the best-known figures in the american business world, certainly has been so over the last several decades because of his ubiquitous face and his ads, but also because of the great company he s built, which is one of the leading financial service companies in the united states. he s now just written a book, called invested, by charles schwab, and i want to talk about that and his life, which is incredible. let me start by asking about something you made news with just recently. your company announced you re not just going to do discount brokerage. you re going to give away brokerage for free. in other words, if i want to buy some stock, i call u
i don t consider myself a journalist. and, nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? we are here today with chuck schwab, one of the best-known figures in the american business world, certainly has been so over the last several decades because of his ubiquitous face and his ads, but also because of the great company he has built, which is one of the leading financial service companies in the united states. he has now just written a book, called invested by charles schwab, and i want to talk about that. and his life, which is incredible. let me start by asking about something you made news with just recently. your company announced you are not just going to do discount brokerage, you are going to give away brokerage for free. in other words, if i want to buy some stock, i call up, i have
you? first of all thank you for this interview. but now it was written to appeal to entrepreneurs to let them know how hard it can be and how rewarding it can be. it offers encouragement if i want to start my own business i can do it. the other thing i wanted to do it before i got to walden didn t remember everything because looking at the sec that dictated the new york stock exchange they got rid of fixed commissions and going through all the technology was the inflection point in our financial service industry. i wanted to tell the story from the other side so people could see a human aspect. host: so the title of the harder you work the luckier you get, is that tongue-in-cheek or do you believe that? i really did believe it because it has happened to me so many times the first one sam gould put that together but as i was talking to the people at simon & schuster and of course it s in the book time and time again the harder you work the luckier you get , it sounded lik