Quotes from Andrew Carnegie
No man can become rich without himself enriching others
- Andrew Carnegie
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
- 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 is willing to climb himself.
- 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 thus rich dies disgraced.
- Andrew Carnegie
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.
- Andrew Carnegie
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
- Andrew Carnegie
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
- Andrew Carnegie
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.
- 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
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
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
- Andrew Carnegie