Best Andrew Carnegie Quotes And Advice

 

 

 

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie drove the development of the American steel industry in the late nineteenth century and is regularly recognized as one of the most extravagant people(and richest Americans) in history. He turned into a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. During the most recent 18 years of his life, he gave away about $350 million to philanthropies, establishments, and colleges – very nearly 90 per cent of his fortune. His 1889 article broadcasting “The Gospel of Wealth” approached the rich to utilize their riches to improve society, and animated a rush of magnanimity.

 

Here are some of the Best Andrew Carnegie Quotes 

“There is little success, where there is little laughter.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Aim for the highest.” – Andrew Carnegie

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” – Andrew Carnegie

“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. he that dare not is a slave.” – Andrew Carnegie

“A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body, can be moved for the shade into sunshine.” – Andrew Carnegie

 

“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Mr Morgan buys his partners, I grow my own.” – Andrew Carnegie

“No person will make a great business; who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.” – Andrew Carnegie

“And the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual but it’s best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.” – Andrew Carnegie

 

“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world will take off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity and the world will stand on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%” – Andrew Carnegie

“The secret of happiness is renunciation.” – Andrew Carnegie

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

“Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was because you wanted something. Aim for the highest and when it’s a question of God’s almighty spirit. Never say I can’t.” – Andrew Carnegie

 

“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.” – Andrew Carnegie

“All achievements, all earned riches have their beginning in an idea.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.” – Andrew Carnegie

“I did not understand steam machinery but I tried to understand much more complicated mechanism; – man.” – Andrew Carnegie

 

“I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.” – Andrew Carnegie

“I shall argue that strong men conversely know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater purpose.” – Andrew Carnegie

“My motto is concentration. First honesty; then industry and then concentration.” – Andrew Carnegie

“It is the mind that makes the body rich.” – Andrew Carnegie

 

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” – Andrew Carnegie

“The first man gets the oyster, the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie

 

 

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“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work but in recognizing the best person to do it.” – Andrew Carnegie

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

 

“Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.” – Andrew Carnegie

“All honour’s wounds are self-inflicted.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.” – Andrew Carnegie

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

 

“I believe that the true road to pre-eminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.” – Andrew Carnegie

“I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.” – Andrew Carnegie

“No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honour.” – Andrew Carnegie

“The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.” – Andrew Carnegie

 

“Success can be attained in any branch of labour. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.” – Andrew Carnegie

“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.” – Andrew Carnegie

“The wise man put all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.” – Andrew Carnegie

“There is no class as pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.” – Andrew Carnegie

 

“Whatever I engage in, I push inordinately.” – Andrew Carnegie

“And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret. Concentrate your energy, thoughts and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged in. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line; to lead in it. Adopt every improvement, have the best machinery and know the most about it.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Don’t look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.” – Andrew Carnegie

“You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.” – Andrew Carnegie

 

“I can’t afford to pay them any other way.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.” – Andrew Carnegie

“No man becomes rich without himself enriching others.” – Andrew Carnegie

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

“The man who dies rich dies in disgrace.” – Andrew Carnegie

 

 

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