Andrew Carnegie Quotes about Inspirational

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

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

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

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

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%.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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.

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

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

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

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

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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

No man can become rich without himself enriching others