Andrew Carnegie

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

Andrew Carnegie

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

Andrew Carnegie

It is now thirteen years since I ceased to accumulate wealth and began to distribute it. I could never have succeeded in either had I stopped with having enough to retire upon, but nothing to retire to.

Andrew Carnegie

It is trying to be other than one’s self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

Andrew Carnegie

Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.

Andrew Carnegie

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on.

Andrew Carnegie

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Andrew Carnegie

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

Andrew Carnegie