Andrew Carnegie

I can’t afford to pay them any other way.

Andrew Carnegie

I wish to have as my epitaph: ‘Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.’

Andrew Carnegie

If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual.

Andrew Carnegie

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

Andrew Carnegie

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

Andrew Carnegie

Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.

Andrew Carnegie

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.

Andrew Carnegie

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

Andrew Carnegie

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich.

Andrew Carnegie

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost – for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

Andrew Carnegie