I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

In my own house I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know. Although I had received no technical education I made myself master of chemistry and of the laboratory, which proved of lasting value.