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He that cannot reason is a fool.
— Andrew Carnegie
There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.
— Andrew Carnegie
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
— Andrew Carnegie
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
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
— Andrew Carnegie
Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.
— Andrew Carnegie
When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.
— Andrew Carnegie
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
— Andrew Carnegie
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
— Andrew Carnegie
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
It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
— Andrew Carnegie
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
— Andrew Carnegie
Aim for the highest.
— Andrew Carnegie
Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
— Andrew Carnegie
Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.
— Andrew Carnegie
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
— Andrew Carnegie
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
— 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
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
— Andrew Carnegie
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
— Andrew Carnegie
All is well since all grows better
— Andrew Carnegie
No man can become rich without himself enriching others
— 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
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.
— Andrew Carnegie
Young man, make your name worth something.
— Andrew Carnegie
There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.
— Andrew Carnegie
Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.
— Andrew Carnegie
The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks
— Andrew Carnegie
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
— Andrew Carnegie
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
— Andrew Carnegie
There is little success where there is little laughter.
— Andrew Carnegie
Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
— Andrew Carnegie
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.
— Andrew Carnegie
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
— Andrew Carnegie
The law which is never to be broken is never required.
— Andrew Carnegie
The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.
— Andrew Carnegie
Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.
— Andrew Carnegie
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.'
— Andrew Carnegie
Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"
— Andrew Carnegie
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
— Andrew Carnegie
Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.
— Andrew Carnegie
I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.
— Andrew Carnegie
Steel is prince or pauper.
— Andrew Carnegie
Do not look at mirage and look inside mirror
— V.V. Rao
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
— Andrew Carnegie
The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.
— Andrew Carnegie
Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
— Andrew Carnegie
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
— Andrew Carnegie
What one does easily, one does well.
— Andrew Carnegie
Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.
— Andrew Carnegie
Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
— Andrew Carnegie
If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap,
— Andrew Carnegie
The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
— Andrew Carnegie
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
— 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
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
— Andrew Carnegie
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
— Andrew Carnegie
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In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
— Andrew Carnegie
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
— Andrew Carnegie
Is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances
— Andrew Carnegie
There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it
— Andrew Carnegie
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
— Andrew Carnegie
I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.
— Andrew Carnegie
The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.
— Andrew Carnegie
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
— Andrew Carnegie
The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
— Andrew Carnegie
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
All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
— 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
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
— Andrew Carnegie
I can't afford to pay them any other way.
— Andrew Carnegie
There is very little success where there is very little laughter.
— Andrew Carnegie
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
— 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
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
— Andrew Carnegie
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.
— Andrew Carnegie
Do real and permanent good in this world.
— Andrew Carnegie
The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.
— Andrew Carnegie
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.
— Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.
— H.W. Brands
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
TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.
— 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
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
— Andrew Carnegie
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
— Andrew Carnegie
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
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
— Andrew Carnegie
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There's always room at the top in every pursuit.
— Andrew Carnegie
Pioneering don't pay.
— Andrew Carnegie