Andrew Carnegie Quotes

• One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

  Andrew Carnegie

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• 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 a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race.

  Andrew Carnegie

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• The man who dies rich…dies disgraced.

  Andrew Carnegie

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• 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

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• I support the bigot’s right to speak out, as if I start limiting them, they may start limiting me. I also support my right to ignore them.

  Andrew Carnegie

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• Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

  Andrew Carnegie

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

  Andrew Carnegie

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

  Andrew Carnegie

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• Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

  Andrew Carnegie

• Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

  Andrew Carnegie

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

  Andrew Carnegie

• There is little success where there is little laughter.

  Andrew Carnegie

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

  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

• 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 first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

  Andrew Carnegie

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• The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

  Andrew Carnegie

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• 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

  Topics in Compromise

• Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

  Andrew Carnegie

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• No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

  Andrew Carnegie

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Andrew Carnegie (39)

Birth:	25th November, 1835
Death:	11th August, 1919
Nationality:	American, Scottish
Profession:	Industrialist, Philanthropist

About

Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. He was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the highest profile philanthropists of his era; his 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy. He emigrated to the United States with his very poor parents in 1848. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million, creating the U.S. Steel Corporation. Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research. With the fortune he made from business, he built Carnegie Hall, and founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Carnegie Hero Fund, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, among others.

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