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
Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.
I can't afford to pay them any other way.
The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.
There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it
Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.
The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.
I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.
Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.
I 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.
The sound rule in business is that you may give money freely when you have a surplus, but your name never-neither as endorser nor as member of a corporation with individual liability
He that cannot reason is a fool.