236 Quotes by Andrew Carnegie

Do real and permanent good in this world.

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

Young man, make your name worth something.

Every man gravitates to where he belongs in life, just as surely as water seeks and finds its level. His position is measured precisely by the quality and quantity of the service he renders, plus the mental attitude with which he relates himself to other people...

When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

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.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

Steel is prince or pauper.