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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.
Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.
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.
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.
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.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.
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.