Andrew Carnegie
A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.Collection: Happiness
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.Collection: Inspirational
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.Collection: Teamwork
The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.Collection: Men
...the law which is never to be broken is never required.Collection: Law
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.Collection: Three
I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.Collection: Giving
Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.Collection: Mean
Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.Collection: Real
A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.Collection: Destiny
Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.Collection: Race
The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.Collection: Weakness
Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.Collection: Golf
I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.Collection: Inspirational
All is well since all grows betterCollection: Wells
It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.Collection: Girl
He that cannot reason is a fool.Collection: Fool
Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.Collection: Law
The sound rule in business is that you may give money freely when you have a surplus, but your name never-neither as endorser nor as member of a corporation with individual liabilityCollection: Names
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.Collection: School
When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.Collection: Inspirational
Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.Collection: Heart
The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.Collection: Wise
There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.Collection: Causes
The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.Collection: Giving
Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.Collection: Civilization
That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.Collection: Statistics
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine GreerCollection: Home
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.Collection: Office
Steel is prince or pauper.Collection: Steel
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.Collection: Running
The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.Collection: Civilization
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.Collection: Work
I can't afford to pay them any other way.Collection: Inspirational
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.Collection: Wise
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.Collection: Peace
I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.Collection: Power
Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.Collection: Dream
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.Collection: Believe
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.Collection: Funny
Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.Collection: Rights
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.Collection: Creating
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.'Collection: Wise
Teamwork appears most effective if each individual helps others to succeed, increasing the synergy of that team; ideally, every person will contribute different skills to increase the efficiency of the team and develop its unity.Collection: Teamwork
The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.Collection: Giving
Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.Collection: Men
Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.Collection: Wise
There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do.Collection: Two
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.Collection: Moving