Top 100 Andrew Carnegie Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
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#3. Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
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#4. The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
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#5. Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
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#6. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
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#7. The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.
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#8. The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
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#9. An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction. Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.
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#11. The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
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#12. Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
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#13. I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
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#14. The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.
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#15. The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks
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#16. He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
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#17. I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.
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#18. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
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#19. I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.
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#21. Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.
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#22. Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
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#23. Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
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#24. Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
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#25. 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.
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#27. The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.
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#28. I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.
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#29. Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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#30. There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.
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#34. There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
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#35. It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.
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#36. I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
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#37. Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself
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#38. Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.
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#39. The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.
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#40. The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
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#41. Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.
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#42. People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.
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#45. Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
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#46. The law which is never to be broken is never required.
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#47. I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
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#48. 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.
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#49. Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
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#50. Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.
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#51. A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.
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#52. There is very little success where there is very little laughter.
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#53. Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.
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#54. Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.
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#55. Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
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#56. Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
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#57. The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.
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#58. Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
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#59. When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
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#61. Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.
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#62. In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
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#63. 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.'
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#65. I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.
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#66. It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
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#69. It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
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#70. 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.
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#72. There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
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#73. No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
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#74. To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
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#75. Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
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#76. There is little success where there is little laughter.
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#77. No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it
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#78. The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
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#79. 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.
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#80. I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.
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#81. Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.
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#82. Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition ... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.
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#83. Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
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#84. 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.
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#85. The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.
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#86. 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.
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#87. All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
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#89. Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
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#90. Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.
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#91. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
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#93. The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.
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#94. Their surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the forms best calculated to do them lasting good. Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire
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#95. A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.
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#96. The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
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#97. A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.
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#100. Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
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