This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravaganc...
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Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself. - Andrew Carnegie
Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the ...
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. - Andrew Carnegie
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people 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
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,...
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results. - Andrew Carnegie
You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little. - Andrew Carnegie
Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution. - Andrew Carnegie
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it - Andrew Carnegie
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...
I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe. - Andrew Carnegie
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. - Andrew Carneg...
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents. - Andrew Carnegie
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational obje...
A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body can be move...
Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket. - Andrew Carnegie
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