Andrew Carnegie Quotes
Andrew Carnegie Quotes on Teamwork
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Andrew Carnegie Quotes about Concentration and Focus
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital…. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.
Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
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When I do something good for someone there is such an incredible feeling of gratitude for what I’ve been blessed with. – Kevin H.
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
No man can become rich without himself enriching others.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Quotes by 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.
Aim for the highest.
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.
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.
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 very much more important factor of quality.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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 b???
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
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
Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
Pioneering don’t pay
Quotes from Andrew Carnegie
The man who dies rich dies disgraced
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 devel
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity
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
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 be
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
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%.
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
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.
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
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it
There is little success where there is little laughter.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
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 judgement, is best calculated to produce the most benefitial result for the community-the man of wealth thus becoming the sole agent and trustee for his poorer brethen, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer-doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. – “Wealth”, North American Review, 148, no 391 [June 1889]
The effect of attention to quality…cannot be overestimated.
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
When it is a question of God’s almighty Spirit, never say, “I can’t.”