Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated.
I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
Pioneering don't pay.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.
The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.
There is very little success where there is very little laughter.
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself
The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.
A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.
The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
No man can become rich without himself enriching others
Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
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