Andrew Carnegie Quotes

Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)

Andrew Carnegie (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company, which later became U.S. Steel.

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Alternative Names: Endriu Karnegi • A. Carnegie • Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

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Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now... Oh, please don't speak to me of money!

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man behind a king when I find him.

is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances

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."

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.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it

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.

the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.

Pioneering don't pay.

الانسان الذي يمكنه إتقان الصبر... يمكنه إتقان أي شئ آخر

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. (pp. 663-664)

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.