Andrew Carnegie Quotes & Andrew Carnegie Sayings

Aim for the highest. Andrew Carnegie Sayings All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. Andrew Carnegie 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 Andrew Carnegie Remarks 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. Andrew Carnegie Remarks As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie Quotes As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie Quotations Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. Andrew Carnegie Sayings He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. Andrew Carnegie Sayings He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. Andrew Carnegie Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. Andrew Carnegie Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself. Andrew Carnegie I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line Andrew Carnegie I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the v Andrew Carnegie I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. Andrew Carnegie Quotes If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Andrew Carnegie Popular Quotes Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. Andrew Carnegie In bestowing charity, the main consideration: should be to help those who will help themselves; to provide part of the means by which those who desire to improve may do so; to give those who desire to rise the aids by which they may rise; to assist, but rarely or never to do all. Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. Those worthy of assistance, except in rare cases, seldom require assistance. The really valuable men of the race never do, except in case of accident or sudden change. Every one has, of course, cases of individuals brought to his own knowledge where temporary assistance can do genuine good, and these he will not overlook. But the amount which can be wisely given by the individual for individuals is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances connected with each. He is the only true reformer who is as care ful and as anxious not to aid the unworthy as he is to aid the worthy, and, perhaps, even more so, for in almsgiving more injury is probably done by rewarding vice than by relieving virtue. The rich man is thus almost restricted to following the examples of...others, who know that the best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise: free libraries, parks, and means of recreation, by which men are helped in body and mind; works of art, certain to give pleasure and improve the public taste; and public institutions of various kinds, which will improve the general condition of the people; in this manner returning their surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the forms best calculated to do them lasting good. Andrew Carnegie Remarks It is the mind that makes the body rich. Andrew Carnegie Quotations 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 boys and girls who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library Andrew Carnegie Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition. Andrew Carnegie Adages No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. Andrew Carnegie Sayings No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it Andrew Carnegie Quotes No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie Adages One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. Andrew Carnegie People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. Andrew Carnegie Remarks Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. Andrew Carnegie 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. Andrew Carnegie 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 The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. Andrew Carnegie The man who dies rich dies disgraced Andrew Carnegie The man who dies rich dies disgraced. Andrew Carnegie Remarks The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. Andrew Carnegie The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it Andrew Carnegie The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. Andrew Carnegie There is little success where there is little laughter. Andrew Carnegie Remarks There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. Andrew Carnegie There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. Andrew Carnegie There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. Andrew Carnegie 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. Andrew Carnegie Popular Quotes Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! Andrew Carnegie Popular Quotes This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. Andrew Carnegie Sayings 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 Quotations 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 Sayings We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race. Andrew Carnegie When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't." Andrew Carnegie Remarks You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best. Andrew Carnegie You're achieving God's mission for humanity and country through capitalism, but by Christianity and your own sense of patriotism, you have a duty to better mankind. Andrew Carnegie Remarks