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
Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.
I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.
Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.
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...
Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.
There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.
...the law which is never to be broken is never required.