The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie Quotes

“A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“The result of my journey was to bring a certain mental peace. Where there had been chaos there was now order. My mind was at rest. I had a philosophy at last. The words of Christ "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," had a new meaning for me. Not in the past or in the future, but now and here is Heaven within us. All our duties lie in this world and in the present, and trying impatiently to peer into that which lies beyond is as vain as fruitless.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

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

“This is where the children of honest poverty have the most precious of all advantages over those of wealth. The mother, nurse, cook, governess, teacher, saint, all in one; the father, exemplar, guide, counselor, and friend! Thus were my brother and I brought up. What has the child of millionaire or nobleman that counts compared to such a heritage?”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“Let there be light." This”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“East or West Home is best.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.
Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“gradually withdrew from all such enterprises and made up my mind to go entirely contrary to the adage not to put all one’s eggs in one basket. I determined that the proper policy was “to put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“posturing”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“pig metal”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“It is all very well for you, gentlemen, who work one day in the week and are masters of your time the other six during which you can view the beauties of Nature all very well for you- but I think it shameful that you should endeavor to shut out from the toiling masses of that is calculated to entertain and instruct them during the only day which you well know they have at their disposal.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“It was from my uncle I learned all that I know of the early history of Scotland—of Wallace and Bruce and Burns, of Blind Harry's history, of Scott, Ramsey, Tannahill, Hogg, and Fergusson. I can truly say in the words of Burns that there was then and there created in me a vein of Scottish prejudice (or patriotism) which will cease to exist only with life. Wallace, of course, was our hero. Everything heroic centered in him. Sad was the day when a wicked big boy at school told me that England was far larger than Scotland. I went to the uncle, who had the remedy.
"Not at all, Naig; if Scotland were rolled out flat as England, Scotland would be the larger, but would you have the Highlands rolled down?"
Oh, never! There was balm in Gilead for the wounded young patriot. Later the greater population of England was forced upon me, and again to the uncle I went.
"Yes, Naig, seven to one, but there were more than that odds against us at Bannockburn." And again there was joy in my heart—joy that there were more English men there since the glory was the greater.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“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.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“gradually withdrew from all such enterprises and made up my mind to go entirely contrary to the adage not to put all one’s eggs in one basket. I determined that the proper policy was to put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

“Every person who can, even at a sacrifice, make the voyage around the world should do so. All other travel compared to it seems incomplete, gives us merely vague impressions of parts of the whole.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie