Andrew Carnegie

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and thus produce at the lowest cost.

Every man who saves a dollar from his income and invests it in a legitimate enterprise is to be commended.

The older I get, the more I realize how important it is to have good friends.

Wealth, and all that it brings, is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

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

The man who works for the common good is the man who will be happy.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

It is not the rich man who is the best judge of how to spend money.

The man who starts in life to get rich will not succeed, for he has a wrong aim.

I entered the telegraph office as a boy and left it as a man.

The way to success is to get up early, work late, and strike oil.

Free libraries are the people's universities.

The law of competition, therefore, it may be said, is here, for the present, at least, and for the individual, beneficial, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department.

All my life I have been a great believer in the wisdom of the common man.

Pioneering don't pay.

My mind is not a pigeon-hole to be stuffed with facts.

The amassing of wealth is one of the worst species of idolatry.

The older I get, the more I admire and love bright women.