Top 100 Quotes About Andrew Carnegie
#1. It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.
Geoff Mulgan
#2. I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie
H.W. Brands
#3. He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.
David Nasaw
#4. The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.
Judith Rodin
#5. Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie
H.W. Brands
#6. Andrew Carnegie noted in 1891, "The parent who leaves his son enormous wealth generally deadens the talents and energies of the son and tempts him to lead a less useful and less worthy life than he otherwise would.
Leonard E. Burman
#7. Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.
H.W. Brands
#8. It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed.
David Levering Lewis
#9. I believe in two things: One, Andrew Carnegie said, 'He who dies with wealth dies in shame.' And someone once said, 'He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.'
Eli Broad
#10. As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Eric Alterman
#11. There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie
Mark Sanborn
#12. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#13. Is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances
Andrew Carnegie
#14. Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie
#15. Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie
#16. The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
Andrew Carnegie
#17. That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.
Andrew Carnegie
#18. Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
Andrew Carnegie
#19. Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.
Andrew Carnegie
#20. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie
#21. I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
Andrew Carnegie
#22. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#23. The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
Andrew Carnegie
#24. Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
Andrew Carnegie
#25. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#27. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#28. 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%.
Andrew Carnegie
#29. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#30. Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
#31. I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
Andrew Carnegie
#32. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#33. The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks
Andrew Carnegie
#34. He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie
#35. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#36. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie
#37. I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.
Andrew Carnegie
#39. Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.
Andrew Carnegie
#40. Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Andrew Carnegie
#41. Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
#42. Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
Andrew Carnegie
#43. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#45. Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew Carnegie
#46. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#48. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#49. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#50. Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
#51. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#52. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#53. No man can become rich without himself enriching others
Andrew Carnegie
#54. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#55. Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
#56. There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.
Andrew Carnegie
#57. Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.
Andrew Carnegie
#58. When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.
Andrew Carnegie
#59. There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
Andrew Carnegie
#60. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#61. I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew Carnegie
#62. Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself
Andrew Carnegie
#63. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#64. The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.
Andrew Carnegie
#65. The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
Andrew Carnegie
#66. Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.
Andrew Carnegie
#67. TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
#68. People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie
#70. There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it
Andrew Carnegie
#71. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#72. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#73. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#74. The law which is never to be broken is never required.
Andrew Carnegie
#75. I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
Andrew Carnegie
#76. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#78. Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
Andrew Carnegie
#79. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#80. A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.
Andrew Carnegie
#81. Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.
Andrew Carnegie
#82. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#83. Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"
Andrew Carnegie
#84. There is very little success where there is very little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
#85. The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
#86. Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There's always room at the top in every pursuit.
Andrew Carnegie
#87. Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.
Andrew Carnegie
#88. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
#89. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Andrew Carnegie
#90. Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.
Andrew Carnegie
#91. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#92. 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.
Andrew Carnegie
#93. Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
Andrew Carnegie
#94. Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
#95. The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Andrew Carnegie
#96. The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.
Andrew Carnegie
#97. Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie
#98. When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
Andrew Carnegie
#100. Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.
Andrew Carnegie
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