Quotes from Andrew Carnegie

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

I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owing real estate.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual

That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

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

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

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious—being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so—still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.

air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.

It is now thirteen years since I ceased to accumulate wealth and began to distribute it. I could never have succeeded in either had I stopped with having enough to retire upon, but nothing to retire to.

Among the conditions of life or the laws of Nature, some of which seem to us faulty, some apparently unjust and merciless, there are many that amaze us by their beauty and sweetness. Love of home, regardless of its character or location, certainly is one of these.

This is where the children of honest poverty have the most precious of all advantages over those of wealth. The mother, nurse, cook, governess, teacher, saint, all in one; the father, exemplar, guide, counselor, and friend! Thus were my brother and I brought up. What has the child of millionaire or nobleman that counts compared to such a heritage?

I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends. The

He that cannot reason is a fool, He that will not a bigot, He that dare not a slave.

Let there be light. This

If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us. Like draws to like.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

East or West Home is best.

Boulton sold the estate which had come to him by his wife, and the greater part of his father's property, and mortgaged the remainder. It is evident that the great captain had taken in hand far too many enterprises. Probably he had not heard the new doctrine: Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

tall oaks from little acorns grow.

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I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.