Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
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.
More Andrew Carnegie Quotes
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The man who dies rich, dies disgraced
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
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You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.
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A 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.
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Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
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The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich.
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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 wealth receives the slightest consideration.
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
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You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
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It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
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Do real and permanent good in this world.
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That best portion of a good man’s life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
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We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him.
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