Andrew Carnegie quote: "Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it."

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts a...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

You're achieving God's mission for humanity and country through capitalism, but by Christianity and ...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

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

I can't afford to pay them any other way.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anyt...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

In bestowing charity, the main consideration: should be to help those who will help themselves; to p...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of e...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, ...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

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

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an a...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness,...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the ...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

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

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

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

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

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do i...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

There is little success where there is little laughter.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies be...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted somet...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressi...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its ha...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be co...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one bas...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

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

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise dis...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

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

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anyt...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Concentration is my motto. First honesty, then industry, then concentration.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unosten...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, wh...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

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

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

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may s...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

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

No man can become rich without himself enriching others
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Aim for the highest.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

No amount if ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

The man who dies rich dies disgraced
ANDREW CARNEGIE

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unosten...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital.... The wise man puts all his eggs in one ...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

careers, employment, education, test preparation and companies.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't."
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends - the right of the laborer to his hundre...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied ...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

It is the mind that makes the body rich.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that li...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never faili...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even i...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the imp...
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Pioneering don't pay
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
DALE CARNEGIE

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
DALE CARNEGIE

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can d...
DALE CARNEGIE

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
DALE CARNEGIE

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat...
DALE CARNEGIE

The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success...
DALE CARNEGIE

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's g...
DALE CARNEGIE

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you h...
DALE CARNEGIE

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear does...
DALE CARNEGIE

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
DALE CARNEGIE

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. ...
DALE CARNEGIE

How to win friends and influence people.
DALE CARNEGIE

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or...
DALE CARNEGIE

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about t...
DALE CARNEGIE

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two y...
DALE CARNEGIE

The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insin...
DALE CARNEGIE

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
DALE CARNEGIE

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a ...
DALE CARNEGIE

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
DALE CARNEGIE

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: D...
DALE CARNEGIE

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be h...
DALE CARNEGIE

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what yo...
DALE CARNEGIE

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds an...
DALE CARNEGIE

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our ho...
DALE CARNEGIE

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We...
DALE CARNEGIE

Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He di...
DALE CARNEGIE

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two...
DALE CARNEGIE

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
DALE CARNEGIE

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
DALE CARNEGIE

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really a...
DALE CARNEGIE

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. ...
DALE CARNEGIE

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fat...
DALE CARNEGIE

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best wo...
DALE CARNEGIE

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear does...
DALE CARNEGIE

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet dis...
DALE CARNEGIE

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy
DALE CARNEGIE

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
DALE CARNEGIE

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
DALE CARNEGIE

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willi...
DALE CARNEGIE

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
DALE CARNEGIE

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
DALE CARNEGIE

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it ma...
DALE CARNEGIE

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to im...
DALE CARNEGIE

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life...
DALE CARNEGIE

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you was...
DALE CARNEGIE

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, t...
DALE CARNEGIE

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry tha...
DALE CARNEGIE

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently ma...
DALE CARNEGIE

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
DALE CARNEGIE

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
DALE CARNEGIE

Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst h...
DALE CARNEGIE

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what...
DALE CARNEGIE

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Rel...
DALE CARNEGIE

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want ...
DALE CARNEGIE

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live...
DALE CARNEGIE

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated a...
DALE CARNEGIE

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
DALE CARNEGIE

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself
DALE CARNEGIE

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic
DALE CARNEGIE

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
DALE CARNEGIE

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy...
DALE CARNEGIE

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment
DALE CARNEGIE

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be underst...
DALE CARNEGIE

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We...
DALE CARNEGIE

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it ma...
DALE CARNEGIE

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
DALE CARNEGIE

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, li...
DALE CARNEGIE

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the wor...
DALE CARNEGIE

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures o...
DALE CARNEGIE

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the wor...
DALE CARNEGIE

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
DALE CARNEGIE

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds ...
DALE CARNEGIE

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is wha...
DALE CARNEGIE

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listener...
DALE CARNEGIE

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
DALE CARNEGIE

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be h...
DALE CARNEGIE

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds ...
DALE CARNEGIE

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing...
DALE CARNEGIE

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
DALE CARNEGIE

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry...
DALE CARNEGIE

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something ...
DALE CARNEGIE

To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is m...
HATTIE CARNEGIE

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying w...
DALE CARNEGIE

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the w...
DALE CARNEGIE

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emo...
DALE CARNEGIE

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
DALE CARNEGIE

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We...
DALE CARNEGIE

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you...
DALE CARNEGIE

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t...
DALE CARNEGIE

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
DALE CARNEGIE

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what y...
DALE CARNEGIE

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
DALE CARNEGIE

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, d...
DALE CARNEGIE

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to s...
DALE CARNEGIE

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
DALE CARNEGIE

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-c...
DALE CARNEGIE

The spectacle of Mr. Allen being wheeled into the death chamber, unable to walk and unable to see th...
ANNETTE CARNEGIE

These infirmities are not simply the result of the passage of time or of old age, as some would sugg...
ANNETTE CARNEGIE

At this point, he is not a harm or threat to anyone.
ANNETTE CARNEGIE

The governor has chosen not to give any consideration to the devastating impact these unacceptable c...
ANNETTE CARNEGIE

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures b...
DALE CARNEGIE

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Sh...
DALE CARNEGIE

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
DALE CARNEGIE

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
DALE CARNEGIE

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one i...
DALE CARNEGIE

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by contr...
DALE CARNEGIE

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
DALE CARNEGIE

[For all that, their work with BittovÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¡ has been one of their more adven...
CARNEGIE HALL

Let the Good Times Roll.
CARNEGIE HALL

[For all that, their work with BittovÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¡ has been one of their more adventurous outing...
CARNEGIE HALL

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.
CARNEGIE HALL

the almost sculpted clarity of his playing, and his ability to maintain balance and tension in large...
CARNEGIE HALL

[In the 1950s, he began conducting symphony orchestras across the country, in Canada and in Europe. ...
CARNEGIE HALL

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you reall...
DALE CARNEGIE

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our...
DALE CARNEGIE

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat ne...
DALE CARNEGIE

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you t...
DALE CARNEGIE

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in ...
DALE CARNEGIE

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing t...
DALE CARNEGIE

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
DALE CARNEGIE

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many bles...
DALE CARNEGIE

all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon -...
DALE CARNEGIE

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
DALE CARNEGIE

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

Andrew Carnegie

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