Andrew Carnegie Self Improvement quotes

Andrew Carnegie at one point was the richest man in the world. He helped lead the American Industry. Andrew Carnegie was also the person who employed Napoleon Hill to write Think and Grow Rich and The Law of Success. Please enjoy these Andrew Carnegie quotes, he was one of the greatest business minds the world has ever known.

"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."
Andrew Carnegie

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

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

"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration."
Andrew Carnegie

"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."
Andrew Carnegie

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

"The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised."
Andrew Carnegie

"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."
Andrew Carnegie

"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."
Andrew Carnegie

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

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"
Andrew Carnegie

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

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