Andrew Carnegie Quotes

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

Do real and permanent good in this world.

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.

Pioneering don't pay.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

All is well since all grows better

...the law which is never to be broken is never required.

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

There is very little success where there is very little laughter.

I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it