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
The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
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.
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.
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.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
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.
Steel is prince or pauper.
There is very little success where there is very little laughter.