Quotes by Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

American industrialist

Alive from: 1835-1919

Category: Economists and businessmen

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  I can't afford to pay them any other way.

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  I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

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  I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

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  I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

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  Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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  No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

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  No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

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  Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

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  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%.

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  The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
  

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  The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

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  The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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  There is little success where there is little laughter.

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  There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

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  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.