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Men Quotes by Andrew Carnegie
- As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
- No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
- 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…
- Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
- 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,…
- The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
- I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
- You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
- The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
- Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking,…
- No man can become rich without himself enriching others
- A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money…
- I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the…
- One great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration.
- In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
- 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…
- The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
- Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined.…
- The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich
- The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.
- The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
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