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
the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.
Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it
It is the mind that makes the body rich.
I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.
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.
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.