Andrew Carnegie Quotes - Page 3

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

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• Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wisdom, Eggs, Energy

  Address to students at Curry Commercial College, Pittsburgh, Pa., 23 June 1885. Printed in Carnegie's book, The Empire of Business (1902).

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• Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Moving, Men, Decision

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• Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Business, Decision, Watches

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• 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.

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Care, Littles

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• I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Lying, Men

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• I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Giving, Half, Firsts

  42 Copy quote

• Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Strong, Men, Weakness

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• You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Moving, Gold, Way

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• Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Sacred, Wealth, Surplus

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• It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Giving, Charity, Firsts

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• Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Fall, Heart, Scotland

  Andrew Carnegie, Margaret Barclay Wilson (1915). “A Carnegie Anthology”

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• Every man gravitates to where he belongs in life, just as surely as water seeks and finds its level. His position is measured precisely by the quality and quantity of the service he renders, plus the mental attitude with which he relates himself to other people.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Attitude, Men, People

  74 Copy quote

• When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Funny, Famous Inspirational, Fate

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  66 Copy quote

• It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Self, Trying, Natural

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.131, 谷月社

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• Do real and permanent good in this world.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Real, World, This World

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.24, Penguin

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• The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. 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.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Leaving, Passing Away

  "The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay The Gospel of Wealth". Book by Andrew Carnegie, 2014.

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• Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Born, Wanted

  "How to Win Friends and Influence People". Book by Dale Carnegie, p. 40, 2016.

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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.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

  130 Copy quote

• The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Wisdom Experience, Community

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• Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Basketball, Business, Men

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• The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Boys, Men, Battle

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.63, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Believe, Commitment, Achievement

  Andrew Carnegie (2011). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.176, PublicAffairs

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