A man’s reading program should be as carefully chosen as his daily diet, for it, too, is food without which he cannot grow mentally.
– Andrew Carnegie
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
When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.
– Andrew Carnegie
The first man gets the oyster, the second gets the shell.
– Andrew Carnegie
You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.
– Andrew Carnegie
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.
– Andrew Carnegie
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
– Andrew Carnegie
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy,
and inspires your hopes.
– Andrew Carnegie
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
– Andrew Carnegie
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter
how impressive their other talents.
– Andrew Carnegie
All achievements, all earned riches have their beginning in an idea.
– Andrew Carnegie
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for
the good of his community.
– Andrew Carnegie
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
– Andrew Carnegie
The way to get rich is put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
– Andrew Carnegie
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
– 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
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
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never
failing spring in the desert.
– Andrew Carnegie
There is little success, where there is little laughter.
– 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
I don’t believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have
solved the problem of life.
– Andrew Carnegie
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.
– Andrew Carnegie
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.
– Andrew Carnegie
Teamwork: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.
– Andrew Carnegie
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dares not is a slave.
– Andrew Carnegie
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
– Andrew Carnegie