236 Quotes by Andrew Carnegie

What one does easily, one does well.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.

The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

All is well since all grows better

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.