Andrew Carnegie From Others Quotes & Sayings

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! — Andrew Carnegie

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. — Andrew Carnegie

Steel is prince or pauper. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right. If so disposed, the Architect of the Universe, we must assume, might have made the world and man perfect, free from evil and from pain, as angels in heaven are thought to be; but although this was not done, man has been given the power of advancement rather than of retrogression. The Old and New Testaments remain, like other sacred writings of other lands, of value as records of the past and for such good lessons as they inculcate. Like the ancient writers of the Bible our thoughts should rest upon this life and our duties here. "To perform the duties of this world well, troubling not about another, is the prime wisdom," says Confucius, great sage and teacher. The next world and its duties we shall consider when we are placed in it. — Andrew Carnegie

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one. — Andrew Carnegie

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none. — Andrew Carnegie

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service. — Andrew Carnegie

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

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. — Andrew Carnegie

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself — Andrew Carnegie

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves. — Andrew Carnegie

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one. — Andrew Carnegie

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

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

Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do" — Andrew Carnegie

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich — Andrew Carnegie

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

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie

Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances. — Andrew Carnegie

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

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

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity. — Andrew Carnegie

Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it. — Andrew Carnegie

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. — Andrew Carnegie