Top 10 Most Famous Andrew Carnegie Quotes
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
— Andrew Carnegie
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
— 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
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
The secret of happiness is renunciation.
— Andrew Carnegie
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
— Andrew Carnegie
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
— Andrew Carnegie
A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body, can be moved for the shade into sunshine.
— Andrew Carnegie
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
— Andrew Carnegie
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
— Andrew Carnegie
10 Motivational Andrew Carnegie Quotes on Success
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
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
The secret of success is not doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
— Andrew Carnegie
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
— Andrew Carnegie
There is little success where there is little laughter.
— Andrew Carnegie
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
— Andrew Carnegie
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
— Andrew Carnegie
All achievements, all earned riches have their beginning in an idea.
— Andrew Carnegie
Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I’ll show you a winner every time.
— Andrew Carnegie
I believe that the true road to pre-eminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.
— Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie Teamwork Quotes
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
— Andrew Carnegie
Success can be attained in any branch of human labor. There is always room at the top in every pursuit. Concentrate all your thought and energy upon the performance of your duties.
— Andrew Carnegie
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
— Andrew Carnegie
Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed.
— Andrew Carnegie
And the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual but it’s best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
— Andrew Carnegie
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
— Andrew Carnegie
Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.
— Andrew Carnegie
Gospel Of Wealth Quotes By Andrew Carnegie
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
— 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
The experienced in affairs always rate the MAN whose services can be obtained as a partner as not only the first consideration but such as to render the question of his capital scarcely worth considering, for such men soon create capital; while, without the special talent required, capital soon takes wings.
— Andrew Carnegie
No, your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man behind a king when I find him.
— Andrew Carnegie
There are instances of millionaires’ sons unspoiled by wealth, who, being rich, still perform great services in the community. Such are the very salt of the earth, as valuable as, unfortunately, they are rare.
— 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
There is no class as pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
— Andrew Carnegie
The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
— 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
Air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.
— Andrew Carnegie
No man can become rich without himself enriching others.
— Andrew Carnegie
Of every thousand dollars spent in so called charity to-day, it is probable that $950 is unwisely spent; so spent, indeed as to produce the very evils which it proposes to mitigate or cure.
— Andrew Carnegie
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
— Andrew Carnegie
All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.
— Andrew Carnegie
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
— Andrew Carnegie
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
— 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.
— Andrew Carnegie
The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.
— Andrew Carnegie
Young man, make your name worth something.
— Andrew Carnegie
There is little success where there is little laughter.
— Andrew Carnegie
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
— Andrew Carnegie
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
— Andrew Carnegie
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
— Andrew Carnegie
The ‘good old times’ were not good old times. Neither master nor servant was as well situated then as to-day.
— Andrew Carnegie
He that cannot reason is a fool, He that will not a bigot, He that dare not a slave.
— Andrew Carnegie
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
— Andrew Carnegie
Best Andrew Carnegie Quotes
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
— 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
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
— Andrew Carnegie
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
— Andrew Carnegie
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
— Andrew Carnegie
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
— 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
Aim for the highest.
— Andrew Carnegie
Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
— Andrew Carnegie
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
— 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
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
— Andrew Carnegie
Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
— Andrew Carnegie
I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated mechanism – man.
— Andrew Carnegie
It is the mind that makes the body rich.
— Andrew Carnegie
A 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
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
One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.
— Andrew Carnegie
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
— Andrew Carnegie
