Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegiewas a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He is often identified as one of the richest people in history, alongside John D. Rockefeller and Jakob Fugger. He built a leadership role as a philanthropist for the United States and the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away to charities, foundations, and universities about $350 million– almost 90 percent of his fortune...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth25 November 1835
CityDunfermline, Scotland
Andrew Carnegie quotes about
If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
Pioneering don't pay.
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.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
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.'
Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.