Quotes from Andrew Carnegie

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

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.

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

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

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

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

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

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

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

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

Anything in life worth having is worth working for!

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

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

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

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

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

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.

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

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

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