Quotes from Andrew Carnegie

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

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

That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

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

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.

Their surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the forms best calculated to do them lasting good. Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire

Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

A forgiving God would be the noblest work of man. We accepted as proven that each stage of civilization creates its own God, and that as man ascends and becomes better his conception of the Unknown likewise improves. Thereafter we all became less theological, but I am sure more truly religious.

Pioneering don't pay.

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