Andrew Carnegie Quotes

140 Andrew Carnegie Quotes

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The best men as men, and the best workmen, are not walking the streets looking for work. Only the inferior class as a rule is idle.
Andrew Carnegie

We could not advance wages when our competitors were reducing them…
Andrew Carnegie

Employers can do so many desirable things for their men at little cost.
Andrew Carnegie

It pays to go beyond the letter of the bond with your men.
Andrew Carnegie

Labor is usually helpless against capital.
Andrew Carnegie

Of all professions, that of teaching is probably the most unfairly, yes, most meanly paid, though it should rank with the highest. Educated men, devoting their lives to teaching the young, receive mere pittances.
Andrew Carnegie

I have never known a body of men capable of legislating for the generation ahead, and in some cases those who attempt to legislate even for their own generation are not thought to be eminently successful.
Andrew Carnegie

If it be asked which man of our age, or even of the past ages, has risen from the lowest to the highest, the answer must be Booker Washington.
Andrew Carnegie

If you wish to play peacemaker, seat adversaries next [to] each other where they must begin by being civil.
Andrew Carnegie

Most quarrels become acute from the parties not seeing and communicating with each other and hearing too much of their disagreement from others.
Andrew Carnegie



Wise is he who offers the hand of reconciliation should a difference with a friend arise. Unhappy he to the end of his days who refuses it.
Andrew Carnegie

He is the happy man who feels there is not a human being to whom he does not wish happiness, long life, and deserved success, not one in whose path he would cast an obstacle nor to whom he would not do a service if in his power.
Andrew Carnegie

There are times in most men’s lives that test whether they be dross or pure gold. It is the decision made in the crisis which proves the man.
Andrew Carnegie

It would be no greater miracle to be born to a future life than to have been born to live in this present life.
Andrew Carnegie

‘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

I am optimistic; all my ducks being swans. He is pessimistic, looking out soberly, even darkly, upon the real dangers ahead, and sometimes imagining vain things.
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.
Andrew Carnegie

Let a multi-millionaire take his millions to the slums and call the people together, saying ‘There is a wrong distribution of wealth in the world; you have not got your share; I give to each one of you share in my millions. Let that be done in the morning and let the millionaire return at night to see what good his action has done and he will find not happiness but pandemonium. Let him distribute another million every day for a month, and at the end of that time what ought we say to him? We ought to say, ‘Go on your knees and crawl for pardon. You have done more harm in a month than you can ever undo in all your life.’
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

Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie



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