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.
Andrew CarnegieTeamwork 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.
Andrew CarnegieDo not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.
Andrew CarnegieLibraries 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 Greer
Andrew CarnegieThe rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
Andrew CarnegieThe surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.
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 CarnegieA library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
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 CarnegieThe first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
Andrew CarnegieThere is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.
Andrew CarnegieConcentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew CarnegieThe greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich
Andrew CarnegieConcentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'
Andrew CarnegieIf 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.
Andrew CarnegieIf you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew CarnegieI resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
Andrew CarnegieThe average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew CarnegieWealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
Andrew CarnegieI don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
Andrew CarnegieNo man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew CarnegieMy hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.
Andrew CarnegieThere is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.
Andrew CarnegieStrong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew CarnegieAnd 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.
Andrew CarnegieI 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.
Andrew CarnegieI believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
Andrew CarnegieI 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.
Andrew Carnegie