The Gospel of Wealth and Other Writings Quotes

“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”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings

“is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings

“Those worthy of assistance, except in rare cases, seldom require assistance”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays

“Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings