List of Andrew Carnegie Quotes

That 95 Per Cent. Fail Of Those Who Start In Business Upon Their Own Account Seems Incredible, And Yet Such Are Said To Be The Statistics Upon The Subject.

I Can't Afford To Pay Them Any Other Way.

To Kill A Man Will Be Considered As Disgusting [in The Twentieth Century] As We In This Day Consider It Disgusting To Eat One.

Those Who Would Administer Wisely Must, Indeed, Be Wise, For One Of The Serious Obstacles To The Improvement Of Our Race Is Indiscriminate Charity.

The Price Which Society Pays For The Law Of Competition, Like The Price It Pays For Cheap Comforts And Luxuries, Is Great; But The Advantages Of This Law Are Also Greater Still Than Its Cost- For It Is To This Law That We Owe Our Wonderful Material Development, Which Brings Improved Conditions In Its Train.

The Worlds Civilization Started From The Day On Which Everyone Received Reward For Labour.

Steel Is Prince Or Pauper.

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.

Mr. Morgan Buys His Partners; I Grow My Own.

There Is Not Such A Cradle Of Democracy Upon The Earth As The Free Public Library, This Republic Of Letters, Where Neither Rank, Office, Nor Wealth Receives The Slightest Consideration.

Upon The Sacredness Of Property Civilization Itself Depends-the Right Of The Laborer To His Hundred Dollars In The Savings Bank, And Equally The Legal Right Of The Millionaire To His Millions.

Libraries Are Reservoirs Of Strength, Grace And Wit, Reminders Of Order, Calm And Continuity, Lakes Of Mental Energy, Neither Warm Nor Cold, Light Nor Dark.... In Any Library In The World, I Am At Home, Unselfconscious, Still And Absorbed. ~germaine Greer