Andre Carnegie quotes

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie

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

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

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

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.
- Andrew Carnegie

Success can be attained in any branch of human labor. There is always room at the top in every pursuit. Concentrate all your thought and energy upon the performance of your duties.
- Andrew Carnegie

There is little success where there is little laughter.
- 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.”Aim for the highest.
- Andrew Carnegie

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
- Andrew Carnegie

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

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

No man can become rich without himself enriching others.
- Andrew Carnegie

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

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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%.
- 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

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt into my heart then that my father had to beg for work. And then and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.
- Andrew Carnegie

It is the mind that makes the body rich.”
- Andrew Carnegie

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve.
- 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

Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts.
- Andrew Carnegie

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
- Andrew Carnegie

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

I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.
- Andrew Carnegie

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.
- Andrew Carnegie

Boulton sold the estate which had come to him by his wife, and the greater part of his father's property, and mortgaged the remainder. It is evident that the great captain had taken in hand far too many enterprises. Probably he had not heard the new doctrine: "Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
- Andrew Carnegie

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.
- Andrew Carnegie

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.
- Andrew Carnegie

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated.
- Andrew Carnegie