Andrew Carnegie Quotes
19 quotes from Andrew Carnegie — Steel magnate who built Carnegie Steel (later U.S..
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
“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.”
“Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.”
“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.”
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
“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.”
“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
“Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.”
“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work but in recognizing the best person to do it.”
“No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.”
“The man who dies rich dies disgraced.”
“I shall remember that check as long as I live. It gave me the first penny I ever had that I had not worked for.”
“Hard! I guess it's hard. I lost forty pounds the first three months I came into this business. It sweats the life out of a man.”
“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.”
“The man of wealth must become a trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer. Those who would administer wisely must indeed be wise. For one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.”
“It was burnt into my heart then that my father had to beg for work. And then and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.”
“Tell him I'll see him in hell, where we're both going.”
