Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist, 1835-1919
24 quotes.
Quotes by Andrew Carnegie
- A great business is seldom if ever built up, except on lines of the strictest integrity.
- An honest day's work well performed is not a bad sort of prayer.
- And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged.
- As a rule, those who show willingness to help themselves need not fear about obtaining the help of others.
- As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do.
- Concentration is my motto. First honesty, then industry, then concentration.
- Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- I believe the best preventive of quarrels to be recognition of, and sincere interest in, the men, satisfying them that you really care for them and that you rejoice in their success.
- I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line.
- Instead of the question, "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do?"
- It is a waste of time to criticize the inevitable.
- It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.
- It must either go forward or fall behind; to stand still is impossible.
- No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
- People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity no matter how impressive their other talents.
- Public sentiment will come to be, that the man who dies rich dies disgraced.
- The great manager is the man who knows how to surround himself with men much abler than himself... He who will succeed is not a specialist, excepting so far as it is his special function to understand the human machine.
- The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
- 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.
- The secret of success chiefly lies in the determination to succeed and the resolve that every repulse, every knock-down he receives in the battle, will only nerve him the more.
- Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves.
- You all know that there is no genuine, praiseworthy success in life if you are not honest, truthful, fair-dealing.
- You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
- Here lies a man who knew how to enlist the service of better men than himself.