Andrew Carnegie quotes was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the most important phila Born: 11/25/1835 Died: 08/11/1919 Country: usa

• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. (Andrew Carnegie) [amount/ability]
• You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb. (Andrew Carnegie)
• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. (Andrew Carnegie) [willpower/leader]
• There is little success where there is little laughter. (Andrew Carnegie) [laughter]
• Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. (Andrew Carnegie) [more/future/willpower/take]
• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. (Andrew Carnegie) [attention/men/watch]
• No man can become rich without himself enriching others. (Andrew Carnegie)
• People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. (Andrew Carnegie) [people/content/matter]
• Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! (Andrew Carnegie) [think/life]
• The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. (Andrew Carnegie) [ability/take/mind/take]
• The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. (Andrew Carnegie) [watch]
• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. (Andrew Carnegie) [ability/more]
• Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. (Andrew Carnegie) [power/control]
• The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it. (Andrew Carnegie) [right]
• The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. (Andrew Carnegie)
• Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. (Andrew Carnegie) [charity]
• Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. (Andrew Carnegie) [wealth/trust]
• The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. (Andrew Carnegie) [price/society/right/competition]
• Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket... (Andrew Carnegie) [watch]
• Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration. (Andrew Carnegie) [concentration/honesty/concentration]
• No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. (Andrew Carnegie) [willpower/business]
• Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. (Andrew Carnegie) [look/consciousness]
• I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. (Andrew Carnegie) [dollar]
• Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. (Andrew Carnegie) [power/control]
• We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race. (Andrew Carnegie) [inequality/concentration/business/right]
• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. (Andrew Carnegie) [ability/more]
• The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled. (Andrew Carnegie) [ability/take/mind/take]
• This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community --the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. (Andrew Carnegie) [wealth/provide/trust/matter]
• There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. (Andrew Carnegie) [help/people/help]
• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. (Andrew Carnegie) [attention/people/watch]
• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. (Andrew Carnegie) [amount/ability]

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