Quotes from Andrew Carnegie

is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances

An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction. Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.

their surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the forms best calculated to do them lasting good. Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire

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

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

A forgiving God would be the noblest work of man. We accepted as proven that each stage of civilization creates its own God, and that as man ascends and becomes better his conception of the Unknown likewise improves. Thereafter we all became less theological, but I am sure more truly religious.

Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts.

Pioneering don't pay.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. Is is a never failing spring in the desert

Those worthy of assistance, except in rare cases, seldom require assistance

El secreto de mi éxito fue rodearme de personas mejores que yo.

Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket carefully

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.

True it is, we only hate those whom we do not know.

Every person who can, even at a sacrifice, make the voyage around the world should do so. All other travel compared to it seems incomplete, gives us merely vague impressions of parts of the whole.

gradually withdrew from all such enterprises and made up my mind to go entirely contrary to the adage not to put all one's eggs in one basket. I determined that the proper policy was to put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.