The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
ANDREW CARNEGIEThe first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
ANDREW CARNEGIEAs I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIEWealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
ANDREW CARNEGIEThat best portion of a good man’s life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
ANDREW CARNEGIEPittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.
ANDREW CARNEGIEI am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.
ANDREW CARNEGIEHe that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
ANDREW CARNEGIENot only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
ANDREW CARNEGIEThe Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
ANDREW CARNEGIEAll human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
ANDREW CARNEGIEA man’s reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.
ANDREW CARNEGIEShow me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I will show you a winner everytime.
ANDREW CARNEGIEAs I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
ANDREW CARNEGIEThe greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich.
ANDREW CARNEGIEair castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.
ANDREW CARNEGIEThere 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.
ANDREW CARNEGIE