Andrew+Carnegie

=Andrew Carnegie=

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1. 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.

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

3. Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

4. Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

5. Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

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

7. He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

8. Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

9. I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

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

11. Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

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

13. People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

14. Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

15. The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

16. 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.

17. The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

18. There is little success where there is little laughter.

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

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

21. You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

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

23. Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

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