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
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
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 rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.
What one does easily, one does well.
Steel is prince or pauper.
There is very little success where there is very little laughter.
The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.
There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.
That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.
The sound rule in business is that you may give money freely when you have a surplus, but your name never-neither as endorser nor as member of a corporation with individual liability
If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap,
A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.