I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
Andrew CarnegieAnd 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.
Andrew CarnegieI 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.
Andrew Carnegie