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
A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.
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.
I can't afford to pay them any other way.
Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
No man can become rich without himself enriching others
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.