Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.
Andrew Carnegie
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Andrew Carnegie
Age: 83 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 25
Died: 1919
Died: August 11
Business Magnate
Economist
Entrepreneur
Industrialist
Merchant
Philanthropist
Endriu Karnegi
A. Carnegie
Well
Affection
Done
Speaking
Children
Generally
Great
Fortune
Burdened
Men
Poverty
Misguided
Leave
Fortunes
Teach
Teaches
Wells
Observation
More quotes by Andrew Carnegie
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
Andrew Carnegie
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
Andrew Carnegie
Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
Andrew Carnegie
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
Andrew Carnegie
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.
Andrew Carnegie
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
Andrew Carnegie
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
Andrew Carnegie
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
Andrew Carnegie
Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.
Andrew Carnegie
Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.
Andrew Carnegie
I can't afford to pay them any other way.
Andrew Carnegie
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.
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 Carnegie
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie
A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.
Andrew Carnegie
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie
I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.
Andrew Carnegie
...the law which is never to be broken is never required.
Andrew Carnegie
