The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth Quotes

“Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right. If so disposed, the Architect of the Universe, we must assume, might have made the world and man perfect, free from evil and from pain, as angels in heaven are thought to be; but although this was not done, man has been given the power of advancement rather than of retrogression. The Old and New Testaments remain, like other sacred writings of other lands, of value as records of the past and for such good lessons as they inculcate. Like the ancient writers of the Bible our thoughts should rest upon this life and our duties here. "To perform the duties of this world well, troubling not about another, is the prime wisdom," says Confucius, great sage and teacher. The next world and its duties we shall consider when we are placed in it.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth

“It is now thirteen years since I ceased to accumulate wealth and began to distribute it. I could never have succeeded in either had I stopped with having enough to retire upon, but nothing to retire to.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

“Among the conditions of life or the laws of Nature, some of which seem to us faulty, some apparently unjust and merciless, there are many that amaze us by their beauty and sweetness. Love of home, regardless of its character or location, certainly is one of these.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

“If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us. Like draws to like.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

“Certainly the man who makes his own wealth eclipses those who inherit rank from others.” I”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

“I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends. The”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

“tall oaks from little acorns grow.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

“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.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

“My advice to young men would be not only to concentrate their whole time and attention on the one business in life in which they engage, but to put every dollar of their capital into it.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth (Signet Classics)

“the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

“True it is, we only hate those whom we do not know.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth