Andrew Carnegie
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.Collection: Finance
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.Collection: Brainy
There is little success where there is little laughter.Collection: Success
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Business
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.Collection: Leadership
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.Collection: Trust
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.Collection: Future
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.Collection: Men
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.Collection: Age
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.Collection: Best
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.Collection: Power
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%.Collection: Work
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.Collection: Money
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!Collection: Success
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.Collection: Leadership
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
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.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Aim for the highest.
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.Collection: Believe
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.Collection: Men
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.Collection: Inspiration
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets richCollection: Men
There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.Collection: Motivational
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.Collection: Happiness
Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.Collection: Luxury
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.Collection: Helping Others
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.Collection: Sacred
The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.Collection: Thinking
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.Collection: Inspirational
The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risksCollection: Risk
The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.Collection: Leadership
Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.Collection: Men
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.Collection: Inspirational
It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.Collection: Self
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.Collection: Helping Others
Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.Collection: Eggs
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.Collection: Success