Andrew Carnegie

"Thought is the original source of all wealth and success."

"Youth is the time to go flashing from flame to flame and from world to world."

"The man who works and is never discouraged is sure to succeed."

"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away."

"I have always preferred to pluck a thistle than to plant a rose."

"Do not be ashamed to fail. You are only unsuccessful if you do not learn from your failure."

"The great fortune of my life has been that I came to know that the true purpose of wealth is to help humanity."

"The man who would be truly great must make himself."

"Concentration is my motto. First honesty, second industry, third, concentration."

"We cannot waste time upon external enemies when the internal enemy is ever present."

"The cause of poverty is not in our institutions but in ourselves."

"No man can become rich without himself enriching others."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."

"What one generation tolerates, the next generation embraces."

"The man of sense only trifles with them."

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

"Many of the greatest men in history have been called mad by the ignorant masses."

"The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate everything connected with his business by competition."

"All honor to him who won the day without firing a shot; but what if the shot had to be fired?"

"I believe that the true road to preeminence is through the factory."

"A man who does not lose his reason upon the occasion of success is to be envied."

"The man of business must act with such a degree of caution and deliberation as the case requires."

"The real problem in existence is not material scarcity but human limitation in utilizing what is available."

"If there be one principle more widely adopted than another in true civilization it is this; that everything must yield to opinions."

"We are told that no man can be profitably employed who is not contented with his lot in life."

"The man who plants a tree loves his neighbor; the man who cultivates his talent loves himself."

"Success is the outcome of continuous effort toward an honest purpose."

"The real issue is whether a dollar should be preserved or used now to benefit a poor man."

"Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise tremendous power."