Andrew Carnegie

"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."

"The public be damned."

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

"And man can do whatever he wishes, provided only that he will have the determination to try."

"Almost any situation, correctly viewed, can be turned to advantage."

"Depend on yourself. That is the first principle of success."

"The 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."

"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

"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."

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

"There is little success where there is little laughter."

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

"The way to become rich is as plain as the way to the poorhouse; as the one is to work, the other is idleness."

"Concentrate your energies, your thoughts, and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket."

"It marks a big step in your development when you come up against opposition. Never permit it to stop you. That is how you find out whether you have the essential persistence to succeed."

"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."

"Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends."

"The average man cannot accept the truth that life is a mixture of good and evil, pleasure and pain, success and failure."

"Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to make people happy."

"Think of yourself as an incandescent filament lighted with power by our will to do."

"The test of a man's character is what he does when he has power."

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

"The man possessed of the biggest heart will own the largest empire; to be great one must know how to serve."

"There is a moment in everyone's life when they must decide whether they are a passenger or the captain of their own ship."

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go ahead."

"When a man is at work, he is not at home. Home is a place for rest and the companionship of those we love."

"The sooner you see yourself in relation to the world, the sooner you can see your world in relation to yourself."

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

"A man must have a certain amount of moral courage to face himself squarely in the light of his own mistakes and deficiencies."