Andrew Carnegie

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

— Andrew Carnegie

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

— Andrew Carnegie

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

— Andrew Carnegie

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who…

— Andrew Carnegie

Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.

— Andrew Carnegie

“Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.”

— Andrew Carnegie

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

— Andrew Carnegie

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

— Andrew Carnegie

The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a…

— Andrew Carnegie

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never…

— Andrew Carnegie

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches…

— Andrew Carnegie

Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one…

— Andrew Carnegie

“Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of…

— Andrew Carnegie

Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is…

— Andrew Carnegie

The sound rule in busi­ness is that you may give money freely when you have a sur­plus, but your name never-nei­ther as…

— Andrew Carnegie

The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away…

— Andrew Carnegie

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better…

— Andrew Carnegie

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

— Andrew Carnegie

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless…

— Andrew Carnegie

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

— Andrew Carnegie

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up…

— Andrew Carnegie

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither…

— Andrew Carnegie

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged.…

— Andrew Carnegie

There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what…

— Andrew Carnegie