Andrew Carnegie Quotes - Famous Quotes And Saying
Andrew Carnegie (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company, which later became U.S. Steel.
20 Great Andrew Carnegie Quotes:
Andrew Carnegie Quotes
1. 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
2. Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
― Andrew Carnegie
3. Aim for the highest.
― Andrew Carnegie
4. Young man, make your name worth something.
― Andrew Carnegie
5. Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
― Andrew Carnegie
6. The first man gets the oyster, the second gets the shell.
― Andrew Carnegie
7. No man can become rich without himself enriching others.
― Andrew Carnegie
8. Do real and permanent good in this world.
― Andrew Carnegie
9. 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 from the shade into sunshine.
― Andrew Carnegie
10. We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.
― Andrew Carnegie
11. 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
12. You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
― Andrew Carnegie
13. The secret of success lies not in doing your own work but in recognizing the best person to do it.
― Andrew Carnegie
14. There is little success where there is little laughter.
― Andrew Carnegie
15. 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
16. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
― Andrew Carnegie
17. Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"
― Andrew Carnegie
18. The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost / for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law 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
19. Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.
― Andrew Carnegie
20. It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
― Andrew Carnegie
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