Andrew Carnegie Quotes - Page 6

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

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

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.

...the law which is never to be broken is never required.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

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.

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

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.

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.

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.

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

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.

All is well since all grows better

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.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

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.