Andrew Carnegie

"The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life."

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision."

"Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself."

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

"Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital."

"The gospel of wealth but the corollary is that surplus wealth can become poisonous."

"A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."

"There is no shame in honest failure; there is shame in fearing to fail."

"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to succeed."

"The most important thing is that we keep the future open and fluid."

"Anything I can conceive and believe, I can achieve."

"The Almighty Dollar bends the knee to no man save one, and that one is Labor."

"It is more blessed to give than to receive."

"The man who has the largest heart has the most of the divine nature within him."

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

"To have a reputation of being a millionaire does not help in making a million."

"The toad beneath the harrow knows exactly where each tooth point goes."

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

"The day may be approaching when the globe will tremble as we have made it tremble."

"Successful men, as a rule, are too much absorbed in the creation of wealth to greatly disquiet themselves about its preservation."

"You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best work."

"There are precious few at fifty who have the breadth of view or clear judgment of what is conducive to the progress of civilization."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to preserve oneself, but to respect it further than this is a slavish deed."

"A friendship that can be ended, never really began."

"The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution."

"Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends."

"The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced."

"It is objectionable to me to think the whole world's future depends only on its armies."

"The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people."