Top 100 Quotes About 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. An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Oscar Levant
#3. Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
Skitch Henderson
#4. One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North
personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)
Marshall McLuhan
#5. equality. Qatar has adopted the Education City project, in which it has invited a collection of prestigious American universities to open up branches here in Doha. Some of these universities include Carnegie Mellon University, the Georgetown School of Foreign Service,
Carol Henderson
#6. Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.
Bill Burr
#7. 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
#8. There are no movie references that I can think of in 'Robopocalypse.' However, there are tons of personal references. For example, the IP address that Lurker tracks actually goes back to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I studied robotics.
Daniel H. Wilson
#9. My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the 'hip-hop violinist.' The next night I played at the Apollo.
Miri Ben-Ari
#10. I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.
Warren Buffett
#11. the Carnegie approach to wealth: increase concentration at the top and hope wealth reaches the masses through charitable bequests.
Linsey McGoey
#12. The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.
John Tesh
#13. It is like the feeling you have when someone says your first name all the time in conversation and you know he's been reading Carnegie.
Reid Hoffman
#14. Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.
David Nasaw
#15. I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection.
Groucho Marx
#16. What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
Alison Gopnik
#17. 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
#18. Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern
#19. When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.
Luis Von Ahn
#20. 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
#21. Carnegie: [Carnegie inspects the book] Ask and you shall receive. God is good, is he not?
Eli: All the time.
Carnegie: Not all the time.
[shoots Eli]
Book Of Eli Movie
#22. The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
C. Everett Koop
#23. the Carnegie way of doing things: calculate the productivity of every worker and every machine, cut costs, maximize profits, then repeat
Paul Beck
#24. I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.
Alan King
#25. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
David Rockefeller
#26. Carnegie Mellon finished a well-controlled study showing that people with richer social ties got fewer common colds.
Anonymous
#27. A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.
James Cook
#28. I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on.
Kirsten Nelson
#29. I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.
Gena Rowlands
#30. Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.
Sebastian Thrun
#31. My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'
Sirio Maccioni
#33. Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.
Warren Buffett
#34. It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.
Zubin Mehta
#35. You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.
Itzhak Perlman
#36. When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
Tamara Tunie
#38. I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.
John Wells
#39. I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
Loudon Wainwright III
#40. Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.
David Nasaw
#41. I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University ... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.
Laura San Giacomo
#42. 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
#43. Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.
Joe Manganiello
#44. I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.
Ji-Hae Park
#45. And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.
Gayle Forman
#46. It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
Bernadette Peters
#47. It's every singer's dream to get to Carnegie Hall.
Megan Hilty
#48. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.
Mark Steyn
#49. I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx and Lenin.
Chen Guangbiao
#50. Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.
Ayelet Waldman
#51. Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie
H.W. Brands
#52. But that closing night at Carnegie was without a hint of decline.
Walter Terry
#53. I'm reading more than ever. I've started on the left wall of the Carnegie Library and plan to read my way around the room.
Frances Mayes
#54. The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.
Joshua Bell
#55. The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
Shelley Berman
#56. When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural.
Tony Bennett
#57. That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.
Benny Goodman
#58. 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
#59. I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.
Sanford I. Weill
#60. I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
Laura Osnes
#61. I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ... what a total thrill.
Karen Mason
#62. Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.
H.W. Brands
#63. On the murder of New York deli owner Abe Lebewohl: It's almost like wiping out Carnegie Hall. A sandwich to a Jew is just as important as a country to a Gentile.
Jackie Mason
#64. 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
#65. I'm making better than two million a year, but it's hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I'm getting more value for my dollars than they are.
Charles M. Schwab
#66. Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.
Patsy Cline
#67. I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.
David M. Kelley
#68. My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.
Ronald Kessler
#69. I don't have a philosophy as such. Maybe a guiding principle, Carnegie's A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possessionof anything else to which he is justly entitled.' I'm very singular, driven. I like control... of myself and those around me.
E.L. James
#70. Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.
Vanessa Carlton
#71. 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
#72. [They're in the middle of a gun fight with Carnegie's men]
Solara: You know that voice you heard, did it say anything about this.
Eli: We'll get out both of us.
George: What about us?
Eli: Didn't say anything about you.
Book Of Eli Movie
#74. George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon provides one of the simplest definitions of curiosity: the feeling of deprivation that comes from an information gap between what we know and what we want to know. Separately,
Philip Kotler
#75. I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
Jeffrey Archer
#76. How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"
"I-95.
Bryan Way
#77. Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh really changed everything for me.
Billy Porter
#78. 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
#79. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
C. Everett Koop
#80. I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?'
Mario Cantone
#81. Reflections on Careers in Quantitative Finance
Carnegie Mellon's Steve Shreve is out with an interesting post on careers in quantitative finance, with his commentary on the changing landscape in quantitative research and the implications for financial education.
Paul Ellis
#82. Inaction breeds fear and doubt. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie, writer and lecturer
Meg Jay
#83. Alas, my "fiddle playing" will not get me to Carnegie Hall - or even to a high school recital. Berkshire, on your behalf and mine, will send the Treasury $3.3 billion for tax on its 2003 income, a sum equaling 2½% of the total income tax paid by all U.S. corporations in fiscal 2003.
Warren Buffett
#84. I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'
Demetri Martin
#85. Carnegie: And who are you?
Eli: Nobody.
Carnegie: Oh, I doubt that. The men you killed in my bar, now they were nobody.
Book Of Eli Movie
#86. Eugenics research was funded by the Carnegie Foundation, and later by the Rockefeller Foundation. The
Michael Crichton
#87. I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#88. I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.
Bill Peterson
#89. Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.
Marty Liquori
#90. reality, a businesslike approach to charity has been dominant within large-scale organized philanthropy for at least 120 years, ever since industrialists such as Carnegie and Rockefeller vowed to apply business techniques to the realm of philanthropy.
Linsey McGoey
#91. I wasn't ever going to play Carnegie Hall, or arenas with the E Street Band, but I did still play - plenty - and had work I liked and was good at. If a man or woman wants more, I often told myself, that man or woman is tempting the gods.
Stephen King
#92. When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
Itzhak Perlman
#93. I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how to best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine! Spending creates more wealth for everybody.
Charles M. Schwab
#94. 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
#95. Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
Ernest Thompson Seton
#97. 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
#98. If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.
Dale Carnegie
#99. Is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances
Andrew Carnegie
#100. Shakespeare said, Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
Dale Carnegie
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