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
I 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.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'
It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
...the law which is never to be broken is never required.
There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.