Andrew Carnegie Quotes
140 Andrew Carnegie Quotes
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
Practically no one has retained a fortune based on speculation.
Andrew Carnegie
Watch the costs, and the profits will take care of themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
In bestowing charity, the main consideration should be to help those who will help themselves…
Andrew Carnegie
The great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties – something which attracts the attention of those over him.
Andrew Carnegie
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie
Nothing is impossible to genius!
Andrew Carnegie
What one does easily, one does well.
Andrew Carnegie
True heroes think not of reward.
Andrew Carnegie
They were old and I was young, which made all the difference.
Andrew Carnegie
I have never known a body of men capable of legislating for the generation ahead…
Andrew Carnegie
It is surprising how few men appreciate the enormous dividends derivable from investment in their own business.
Andrew Carnegie
Most businessmen whom I have known invest in bank shares and in faraway enterprises, while the true gold mine lies right in their own factories.
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately; therefore should I be careful to choose that life which will be the most elevating in its character.
Andrew Carnegie
The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.
Andrew Carnegie
One of the chief sources of success in manufacturing is the introduction and strict maintenance of a perfect system of accounting so that responsibility for money or materials can be brought home to every man.
Andrew Carnegie
The great manufacturing or commercial concern which does not earn at least interest upon its capital soon becomes bankrupt.
Andrew Carnegie
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned to him. A man will never rise if he does only this.
Andrew Carnegie
[On J Pierpont Morgan – JP Morgan] Mr Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
Andrew Carnegie
A man may be concerned in the management of more than one business enterprise, but they should all be of the one kind, which he understands. The great successes of life are made by concentration.
Andrew Carnegie
Dollar making is not necessarily business.
Andrew Carnegie
Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Andrew Carnegie
Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket…
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.
Andrew Carnegie
Aim for the highest…
Andrew Carnegie
Here lies a man who knew how to enlist into his service people better than himself.
Andrew Carnegie
If you want what you’re asking me with all your heart, then there’s nothing I can do to stop you from getting it.
Andrew Carnegie
The average man dedicates 25 percent of his energy to work. The world rewards the person who gives more than 50 percent, and does anything for those rare individuals who give 100 percent.
Andrew Carnegie
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie
I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.
Andrew Carnegie
Ninety percent of all millionaires became so through real estate.
Andrew Carnegie
No man can become rich without enriching others.
Andrew Carnegie
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
Andrew Carnegie
[In 1900] 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
[In February, 1913] Has there ever been danger of war between Germany and ourselves, members of the same Teutonic race? Never has it even been imagined.
Andrew Carnegie
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
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
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
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