60+ Best Andrew Carnegie Quotes

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

The money I have accumulated is but a minor fraction of my real riches.

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

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

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

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

The thoughtful man must shortly say, “I would as soon leave to my son a curse as the almighty dollar.”

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich.

It is the mind that makes the body rich.

Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher than itself.

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.

People who drift through life performing work they do not like, merely because they must have an income as a means of living, seldom get more than a living from their labor.

The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

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

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.

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

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I’ll show you a winner every time.

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

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

Success can be attained in any branch of human labor. There is always room at the top in every pursuit.

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

A 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.

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

Aim for the highest.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

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

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.

Tall oaks grow from little acorns.

Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.

When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Do real and permanent good in this world.

In bestowing charity, the main consideration should be to help those who will help themselves.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

Neither the individual nor the race is improved by alms-giving.

Of every thousand dollars spent in so called charity to-day, it is probable that $950 is unwisely spent.

A man’s reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt into my heart then that my father had to beg for work.

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined.

True it is, we only hate those whom we do not know.

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

They have it in their power during their lives to busy themselves in organizing benefactions from which the masses of their fellows will derive lasting advantage, and thus dignify their own lives.