Quotes from Andrew Carnegie

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

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

Do real and permanent good in this world.

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

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

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.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

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

Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

There is very little success where there is very little laughter.

Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn't go into the mine looking for dirt—one goes in looking for the gold.

We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him.