Andrew Carnegie Quotes

"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."

"Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own."

"There is little success where there is little laughter."

"Anything in life worth having is worth working for!"

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

"I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar."

"Watch the costs, and the profits will take care of themselves."

"You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb."

"Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself."

"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."

"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration."

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."

"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."

"I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution."

"You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best."

"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."

"I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle."

"Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity."

"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."

"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%."

"While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of the few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com