Andrew Carnegie > Quotes

“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“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.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself”
― Andrew Carnegie

“Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.”
― Andrew Carnegie

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You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.
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― Andrew Carnegie

“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer”
― Andrew Carnegie

“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. ”
― Andrew Carnegie

“Do real and permanent good in this world.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himslef.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen, and many so-called poor men, who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reach. It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher than itself. Exalted beyond this, as it sometimes is, it remains Caliban still and still plays the beast. My aspirations take a higher flight. Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light. I hold this the noblest possible use of wealth”
― Andrew Carnegie

“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent on him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgement, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community--the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him. ”
― Andrew Carnegie