Andrew Carnegie Quotes

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• You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

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  The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Discovery, Doe

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  No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Rich, Become Rich

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspiration, People, Giving

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• There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Motivational, Mind, Desire

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• If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Happiness, Happy, Military

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• The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Leadership, Positivity, People

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• There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Helping Others, Help And Support, People

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• Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Average, Desire

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• The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Lying

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• The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Thinking, Giving, Complaining

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• There is little success where there is little laughter.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Andrew Carnegie (1913). “The Empire of Business”

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• The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889

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• The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks

  Andrew Carnegie

  Risk, Dare, Best Times

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• The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Happiness, Sunny, Fortune

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.8, Penguin

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• A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Reading, Men, Program

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• The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Giving, Purpose, Rich

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• You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Littles, Ladders, Climbs

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.70, Penguin

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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.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Jobs, People, Team Building

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• I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Power, Law Of Attraction, Mind

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• There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Two, People, Doe

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• Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Real, Men

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• Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Rights, Preparation, Demand

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• Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Attitude, Power, Secret Love

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