Andrew Carnegie

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

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.

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.

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.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.

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

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

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.

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.

All is well since all grows better

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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.

Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.

The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks

I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

What one does easily, one does well.