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Andrew Carnegie Quotes

Type: Businessman | Date of Birth: 1835-11-25 | Year of Death: 1919 | Nationality: American

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
Andrew Carnegie

And while the law of competition 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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket...
Andrew Carnegie

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Andrew Carnegie

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Andrew Carnegie

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
Andrew Carnegie

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

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

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

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it..
Andrew Carnegie

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

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

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

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew Carnegie

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

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
Andrew Carnegie

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't."
Andrew Carnegie

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
Andrew Carnegie

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