Andrew Carnegie quotes - page 2

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! (Andrew Carnegie)
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately. View quote
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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. View quote
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. View quote
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The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. View quote
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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. View quote
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You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best. View quote
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TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results. (Andrew Carnegie)
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. View quote
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Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. View quote
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. View quote
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. View quote
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I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own. View quote
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Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often his additions tend not to happiness but to misery! View quote
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No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man be­hind a king when I find him. (Andrew Carnegie)
Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring "Peace on earth, among men Good Will." View quote
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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 will be but a trustee of the poor; intrusted for a season with a great part of the increased wealth of the community, but administering it for the community far better than it could or would have done for itself. View quote
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Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? View quote
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When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade. View quote
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