Top 100 Quotes About Carnegie
#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.
Andrew Carnegie
#2. 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
#3. Is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances
Andrew Carnegie
#4. Shakespeare said, Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
Dale Carnegie
#5. Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.
Dale Carnegie
#6. Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
Dale Carnegie
#7. 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
#8. Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie
#9. Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie
#10. The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
Andrew Carnegie
#11. 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
#12. Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
Andrew Carnegie
#13. Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.
Andrew Carnegie
#14. Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
Dale Carnegie
#15. Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over
Dale Carnegie
#16. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie
#17. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
Dale Carnegie
#18. People like people who help them like themselves.
Dale Carnegie
#20. 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
#21. If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.
Dale Carnegie
#22. When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.
Dale Carnegie
#23. 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
#25. People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
#26. One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
#27. There you are; human nature in action, wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We are all like that.
Dale Carnegie
#28. Emerson said: Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.
Dale Carnegie
#29. Don't criticise them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances." Yet
Dale Carnegie
#30. 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
#31. We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.
Dale Carnegie
#32. The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
Andrew Carnegie
#33. If you act enthusiastic, you'll be enthusiastic!
Dale Carnegie
#34. An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Oscar Levant
#35. Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
Andrew Carnegie
#36. If I had only known then how you make it easy to conquer fear, the paralyzing fear of an audience, I wouldn't have lost these past five years." The man who spoke these revealing
Dale Carnegie
#37. There is a reason why the other person thinks and acts as they do. Ferret out that reason - and you have the key to their actions, perhaps to their personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.
Dale Carnegie
#38. When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary. If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.
Dale Carnegie
#39. 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
#40. Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
Dale Carnegie
#42. British writer G. K. Chesterton's reply to an invitation by the Times to write an essay on the subject "What's Wrong with the World?" Chesterton's response: Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely, G. K. Chesterton
Dale Carnegie
#43. Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.
Dale Carnegie
#44. Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.
Dale Carnegie
#45. If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.
Dale Carnegie
#47. Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie
#48. 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
#50. A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.
Dale Carnegie
#51. When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.
Dale Carnegie
#52. Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.
Dale Carnegie
#54. You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
#55. So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments. Remember
Dale Carnegie
#56. We can't win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice.
Dale Carnegie
#57. Abe Lincoln once remarked that "most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." He was right.
Dale Carnegie
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Fill your mind with thoughts of PEACE, COURAGE, HEALTH and HOPE
Dale Carnegie
#61. My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple ... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.
Hattie Carnegie
#62. Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Dale Carnegie
#63. Say 'Hello' in tones that bespeak how pleased you are to have the person call.
Dale Carnegie
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.
Dale Carnegie
#68. 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
#69. Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie
#71. The first
sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act
great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures
us, you must not look too good nor talk too wise.
Dale Carnegie
#72. There is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .
Dale Carnegie
#73. If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.
Dale Carnegie
#74. An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.
Dale Carnegie
#75. 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
#76. So the only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.
Dale Carnegie
#77. The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.
Dale Carnegie
#78. The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
Dale Carnegie
#79. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
#80. Few people are logical. Most of us are prejudiced and biased. Most of us are blighted with preconceived notions, with jealousy, suspicion, fear, envy and pride.
Dale Carnegie
#81. It has been said that nearly all of our worries and unhappiness come from our imagination and not from reality.
Dale Carnegie
#83. Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
Dale Carnegie
#84. 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
#85. Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
#86. I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: He is nothing but a boy
a little boy!
Dale Carnegie
#87. If out of reading this book you get just one thing - an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people's point of view, and see things from their angle - if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career. Looking
Dale Carnegie
#88. Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save his face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? Always avoid the acute angle.
Dale Carnegie
#89. 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
#90. You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
Dale Carnegie
#91. If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.
Dale Carnegie
#92. 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
#93. the Carnegie approach to wealth: increase concentration at the top and hope wealth reaches the masses through charitable bequests.
Linsey McGoey
#94. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
#95. 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
#96. 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
#98. The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks
Andrew Carnegie
#99. Those who keep the peace of their inner selves in the midst of the tumult of the modern city are immune from nervous diseases.
Dale Carnegie
#100. Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.
Dale Carnegie
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