Quotes by Andrew Carnegie

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

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

“The first thing to do about an obstacle is simply to stand up to it and not complain about it or whine under it but forthrightly attack it. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.”

“There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do.”

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

“The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.”

“Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.”

“The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks”

“Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.”

“I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.”

“A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.”

“There is little success where there is little laughter.”