Quotes from Andrew Carnegie

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

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 soon we will have a new and better factory.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.

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

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

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

No man can become rich without himself enriching others