Andrew Carnegie Inspirational Quotes

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• Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Care, Littles

• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Character

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

• 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.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

• Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

• 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

• There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Money, Life And Love

  Andrew Carnegie (1968). “Miscellaneous Writings of Andrew Carnegie”

• The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Confidence, Men

• Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

• Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Branches, Rooms

• The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889

• Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Time, Community

  "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889

• The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  Andrew Carnegie (2007). “The Empire of Business”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

• Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Honesty

• Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  Andrew Carnegie (2007). “The Empire of Business”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

• I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

  Andrew Carnegie (2014). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay: The Gospel of Wealth”, p.186, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Business, Insperational

  1889 'The Gospel of Wealth', in the North American Review, Jun.

• Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Horse

• No man can become rich without himself enriching others

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Men, Volunteerism

• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

• I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Father, Heart

• The secret of happiness is renunciation.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Happiness, Secret

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Round the World”, p.212, Sheba Blake Publishing

• I can't afford to pay them any other way.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Pay, Way

• When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Party, Pennsylvania

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