Andrew Carnegie

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don’t go into the mine looking for the dirt – you go in looking for the gold.

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

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

Andrew Carnegie

All is well since all grows better.

Andrew Carnegie

Among the conditions of life or the laws of Nature, some of which seem to us faulty, some apparently unjust and merciless, there are many that amaze us by their beauty and sweetness. Love of home, regardless of its character or location, certainly is one of these.

Andrew Carnegie

An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction. Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.

Andrew Carnegie

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Andrew Carnegie

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

Andrew Carnegie

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

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