All Andrew Carnegie Quotes
- Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit. Always Room
- A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body… Body
- In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. Complicated
- There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves. Help
- My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that… Came
- It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to… Ability
- Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. Administer
- Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and… Better
- All is well since all grows better All
- 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… Administration
- If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries… Community
- I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than… Bring
- The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it. Lies
- It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor… Advancement
- Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others. Acquire
- What one does easily, one does well. Doe
- Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one. Become One
- A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Disposition
- 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… Advantage
- 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… Act
- 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… Accent
- 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… Attraction
- 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. Cannot Grow
- Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right… Bank
- I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those… Agencies