Andrew Carnegie Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it
A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.
Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.
Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
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.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
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.
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
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.