50 Quotes by Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was an American industrialist and philanthropist who played a significant role in the expansion of the steel industry in the late 19th century. He founded the Carnegie Steel Company, which later became the U.S. Steel Corporation, and amassed a vast personal fortune. In his later years, Carnegie devoted himself to philanthropy, donating a large portion of his wealth to establish libraries, universities, and other institutions. He believed that the wealthy had a responsibility to use their wealth for the public good and is remembered as one of the most generous philanthropists in American history. (Bio)
Andrew Carnegie Quotes
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others. (Meaning)
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves. (Quote Meaning)
The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money. (Meaning)
If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap. (Quote Meaning)
Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. (Meaning)
Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust. (Quote Meaning)
A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. (Meaning)
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves. (Quote Meaning)
Pioneering don't pay. (Meaning)
Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself (Quote Meaning)
No man can become rich without himself enriching others (Meaning)
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves. (Quote Meaning)
Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. (Meaning)
All is well since all grows better (Quote Meaning)
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. (Meaning)
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%. (Quote Meaning)
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. (Meaning)
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. (Quote Meaning)
All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted. (Meaning)
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best. (Quote Meaning)
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! (Meaning)
Here lies a man who knew how to enlist the service of better men than himself. (Quote Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. (Quote Meaning)
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit. (Meaning)
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. (Quote Meaning)
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. (Meaning)
The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do. (Quote Meaning)
My heart is in the work. (Meaning)
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb. (Quote Meaning)
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself. (Meaning)
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. (Quote Meaning)
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. (Meaning)
Aim for the highest. (Quote Meaning)
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. (Meaning)
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. (Quote Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced. (Quote Meaning)
The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.
Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.
The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate. (Meaning)
There is little success where there is little laughter. (Quote Meaning)
A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
Young man, make your name worth something.
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.
The secret of happiness is renunciation.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity. (Meaning)
One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
― Andrew Carnegie Quotes
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