Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegiewas a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He is often identified as one of the richest people in history, alongside John D. Rockefeller and Jakob Fugger. He built a leadership role as a philanthropist for the United States and the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away to charities, foundations, and universities about $350 million– almost 90 percent of his fortune...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth25 November 1835
CityDunfermline, Scotland
The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.
Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.
Steel is prince or pauper.
The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.
Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.
I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.
It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.
There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.
That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.