110+ Andrew Carnegie Quotes On Business, Libraries And Wealth

Andrew Carnegie was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was a self-made millionaire who made his fortune through the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was a major contributor to the establishment of libraries, universities, and other institutions, and he also founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1911 to promote world peace. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Andrew Carnegie on business, leadership, libraries.

Top 10 Andrew Carnegie Quotes

1. You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
2. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
3. No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
4. 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.
5. Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
6. Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.
7. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
8. The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
9. The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
10. The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

Andrew Carnegie Image Quotes

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

You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself. — Andrew Carnegie

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

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. — Andrew Carnegie

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

There is little success where there is little laughter. — Andrew Carnegie

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

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration. — Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie Short Quotes

• There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
• The secret of happiness is renunciation.
• Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
• The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
• Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
• Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.
• The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks
• The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
• Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

Andrew Carnegie Quotes About Business

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration. — Andrew Carnegie

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on 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

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work. — Andrew Carnegie

Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.' — Andrew Carnegie

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

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity. — Andrew Carnegie

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service. — Andrew Carnegie

The sound rule in busi­ness is that you may give money freely when you have a sur­plus, but your name never-nei­ther as en­dorser nor as mem­ber of a cor­po­ra­tion with in­di­vid­ual li­a­bil­ity — Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie Quotes About Libraries

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

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. — Andrew Carnegie

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library. — Andrew Carnegie

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 — Andrew Carnegie

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained. — Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie Quotes About Wealth

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced. — Andrew Carnegie

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. — Andrew Carnegie

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. — Andrew Carnegie

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

The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. — Andrew Carnegie

A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others. — Andrew Carnegie

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. — Andrew Carnegie

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it. — Andrew Carnegie

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. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Andrew Carnegie Quotes About Success

There is little success where there is little laughter. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Anything in life worth having is worth working for. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit. — Andrew Carnegie

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. — Andrew Carnegie

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Andrew Carnegie Quotes About Push

You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself. — Andrew Carnegie

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. — Andrew Carnegie

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately. — Andrew Carnegie

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself. — Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie Quotes About Watch

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket... — Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie Quotes About Ability

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%. — Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. — Andrew Carnegie

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. — Andrew Carnegie

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. — Andrew Carnegie

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. — Andrew Carnegie

The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it. — 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

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time. — Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie Quotes About Grow

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally. — Andrew Carnegie

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own. — Andrew Carnegie

All is well since all grows better — Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie Famous Quotes And Sayings

I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest. — Andrew Carnegie

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire. — Andrew Carnegie

You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself. — Andrew Carnegie

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

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. — Andrew Carnegie

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

There is little success where there is little laughter. — Andrew Carnegie

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. — Andrew Carnegie

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

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

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration. — Andrew Carnegie

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

It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office. — Andrew Carnegie

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

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone. — Andrew Carnegie

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. — Andrew Carnegie

If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap. — Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity. — 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

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

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

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

The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him. — Andrew Carnegie

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. — Andrew Carnegie

Do real and permanent good in this world. — Andrew Carnegie

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. — 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

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.' — Andrew Carnegie

No man can become rich without himself enriching others — Andrew Carnegie

The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order. — Andrew Carnegie

Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast. — Andrew Carnegie

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. — Andrew Carnegie

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. — Andrew Carnegie

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost. — Andrew Carnegie

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out. — Andrew Carnegie

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened. — Andrew Carnegie

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold. — Andrew Carnegie

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

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade. — Andrew Carnegie

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate. — Andrew Carnegie

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. — Andrew Carnegie

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. — 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

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine. — Andrew Carnegie

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

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

The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate. — Andrew Carnegie

Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions. — Andrew Carnegie

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. — Andrew Carnegie

Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not. — Andrew Carnegie

When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party. — Andrew Carnegie

I can't afford to pay them any other way. — Andrew Carnegie

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune. — Andrew Carnegie

Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise. — Andrew Carnegie

Steel is prince or pauper. — Andrew Carnegie

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came. — Andrew Carnegie

We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race. — Andrew Carnegie

What one does easily, one does well. — Andrew Carnegie

Life Lessons by Andrew Carnegie

1. Andrew Carnegie taught the importance of hard work, dedication, and perseverance. He worked his way up from a poor immigrant to a successful businessman, and his success was a result of his commitment to his goals and his willingness to take risks.
2. He also believed in giving back to society, and he used his wealth to fund libraries, universities, and other philanthropic initiatives. He believed that the wealthy should use their wealth to benefit the public good.
3. Lastly, Carnegie emphasized the importance of self-improvement, and he dedicated a significant portion of his life to reading and learning. He believed that knowledge was the key to success and encouraged others to pursue their own education.