Andrew Carnegie
The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.Collection: Communication
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.Collection: Ties
I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated.Collection: Lying
Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himselfCollection: Lying
A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.Collection: Inspirational
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.Collection: Agency
A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.Collection: Integrity
Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.Collection: Humanity
The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.Collection: Strong
And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.Collection: Helping Others
Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.Collection: Wise
No man can become rich without himself enriching othersCollection: Inspirational
The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.Collection: Long
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.Collection: Average
A man’s reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.Collection: Reading