Top 120 Andrew Carnegie Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.”

— Andrew Carnegie

102. “The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.”

— Andrew Carnegie

103. “The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.”

— Andrew Carnegie

104. “Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.”

— Andrew Carnegie

105. “He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”

— Andrew Carnegie

106. “Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.”

— Andrew Carnegie

107. “When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.”

— Andrew Carnegie

108. “It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.”

— Andrew Carnegie

109. “A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.”

— Andrew Carnegie

110. “The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.”

— Andrew Carnegie

111. “Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.”

— Andrew Carnegie

112. “Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.”

— Andrew Carnegie

113. “I don’t believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.”

— Andrew Carnegie

114. “A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.”

— Andrew Carnegie

115. “What one does easily, one does well.”

— Andrew Carnegie

116. “The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”

— Andrew Carnegie

117. “The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.”

— Andrew Carnegie

118. “Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.”

— Andrew Carnegie

119. “Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.”

— Andrew Carnegie

120. “This is where the children of honest poverty have the most precious of all advantages over those of wealth. The mother, nurse, cook, governess, teacher, saint, all in one; the father, exemplar, guide, counselor, and friend! Thus were my brother and I brought up. What has the child of millionaire or nobleman that counts compared to such a heritage?”

— Andrew Carnegie

121. “Let there be light.” This.”

— Andrew Carnegie

122. “If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.”

— Andrew Carnegie

123. “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

124. “If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual.”

— Andrew Carnegie

125. “Among the conditions of life or the laws of Nature, some of which seem to us faulty, some apparently unjust and merciless, there are many that amaze us by their beauty and sweetness. Love of home, regardless of its character or location, certainly is one of these.”

— Andrew Carnegie

126. “It is now thirteen years since I ceased to accumulate wealth and began to distribute it. I could never have succeeded in either had I stopped with having enough to retire upon, but nothing to retire to.”

— Andrew Carnegie

127. “That best portion of a good man’s life – His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”

— Andrew Carnegie

128. “I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.”

— Andrew Carnegie

129. “I can’t afford to pay them any other way.”

— Andrew Carnegie

130. “Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious – being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so – still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.”

— Andrew Carnegie

131. “Certainly the man who makes his own wealth eclipses those who inherit rank from others.” I.”

— Andrew Carnegie

132. “There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire’s money.”

— Andrew Carnegie

133. “I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends. The.”

— Andrew Carnegie

134. “An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction.” Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.”

— Andrew Carnegie

135. “I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.”

— Andrew Carnegie

136. “Boulton sold the estate which had come to him by his wife, and the greater part of his father’s property, and mortgaged the remainder. It is evident that the great captain had taken in hand far too many enterprises. Probably he had not heard the new doctrine: “Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”

— Andrew Carnegie

137. “If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us. Like draws to like.”

— Andrew Carnegie