Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

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.

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.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.