236 Quotes by Andrew Carnegie

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Pioneering don't pay.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.