Andrew Carnegie Quotes

There is little success where there is little laughter.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Young man, make your name worth something.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.

Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.