Quote

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Weakness
Principles
Strong
Never
Men
Compromised
Admission
Contradictory
Compromise

More quotes by Andrew Carnegie

Image
Instead of the question What must I do for my employer? substitute What can I do
Andrew Carnegie
Image
A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it
Andrew Carnegie
Image
TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
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
Image
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
Young man, make your name worth something.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie
Image
Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.
Andrew Carnegie