It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place. — Andrew Carnegie

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money. — Andrew Carnegie

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim. — Andrew Carnegie

I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life. — Andrew Carnegie

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation’s attention from the rest of the service. — Andrew Carnegie

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time. — Andrew Carnegie

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

I can’t afford to pay them any other way. — Andrew Carnegie

Pioneering don’t pay. — Andrew Carnegie

All honor’s wounds are self–inflicted. — Andrew Carnegie

My heart is in the work. — Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. — Andrew Carnegie

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work but in recognizing the best person to do it. — Andrew Carnegie

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work. — Andrew Carnegie

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. — Andrew Carnegie

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man. — Andrew Carnegie

I believe that the road to pre–eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work. — Andrew Carnegie

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. — Andrew Carnegie

No man becomes rich without himself enriching others. — Andrew Carnegie

The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is. — Andrew Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. — Andrew Carnegie

There is very little success where there is very little laughter. — Andrew Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. — Andrew Carnegie

Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it. — Andrew Carnegie

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit. — Andrew Carnegie

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

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money. — Andrew Carnegie

The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate. — Andrew Carnegie

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire’s money. — Andrew Carnegie

There is no class as pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. — Andrew Carnegie

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition. — Andrew Carnegie

I don’t believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie

Air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not. — Andrew Carnegie

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them–nine–tenths of them never happened. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! — Andrew Carnegie

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others. — Andrew Carnegie

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

I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm. — Andrew Carnegie

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes. — Andrew Carnegie

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others. — Andrew Carnegie

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. — Andrew Carnegie

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. — Andrew Carnegie

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. — Andrew Carnegie

Certainly the man who makes his own wealth eclipses those who inherit rank from others.’ I — Andrew Carnegie

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition… these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit. — Andrew Carnegie

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

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. — Andrew Carnegie

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself. — Andrew Carnegie

A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others. — Andrew Carnegie

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. — Andrew Carnegie

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. — Andrew Carnegie

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it. — Andrew Carnegie

Don’t be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It’s the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race. — Andrew Carnegie

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. — Andrew Carnegie

Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise. — Andrew Carnegie