Andrew Carnegie Famous Quotes
"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."
The man who dies rich dies disgraced.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
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.
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."
"Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity."
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie Quotations
"Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack."
Steven Runciman
"Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me."
William James
He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
French Proverb
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E Joseph Crossman
"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."
Charles Robert Darwin
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave."
The Talmud
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
"The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but."
Henry Ward Beecher
"If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it."
Emerson Pugh