236 Quotes by Andrew Carnegie

Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious – being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so – still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.

Pioneering don’t pay.

I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends. The.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Let there be light.” This.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

That best portion of a good man’s life – His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

It is trying to be other than one’s self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction.” Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.