Andrew Carnegie quotes - page 3

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. (Andrew Carnegie)
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. View quote
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Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now... Oh, please don't speak to me of money! View quote
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There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves. View quote
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Anything in life worth having is worth working for. View quote
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The true road to pre-eminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line. View quote
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I can't afford to pay them any other way. View quote
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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. View quote
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All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes. View quote
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. View quote
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Aim for the highest. (Andrew Carnegie)
It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to boys and girls who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library. View quote
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The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away ''unwept, unhonored, and unsung,'' no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be ''The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.'' Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor. View quote
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Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened. Neither is it well for the state. Beyond providing for the wife and daughters moderate sources of income, and very moderate allowances indeed, if any, for the sons, men may well hesitate, for it is no longer questionable that great sums bequeathed oftener work more for the injury than for the good of the recipients. View quote
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It may fairly be said that no man is to be extolled for doing what he cannot help doing, nor is he to be thanked by the community to which he only leaves wealth at death. Men who leave vast sums in this way may fairly be thought men who would not have left it at all had they been able to take it with them. The memories of such cannot be held in grateful remembrance, for there is no grace in their gifts. View quote
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