„Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

„Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

„All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

„Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

„You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

„TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

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

—  Andrew Carnegie

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

—  Andrew Carnegie

Fuente: The Best Fields for Philanthropy, 1889, p. 684

„It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the "dark horse" in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

Chapter III

„While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of the few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

Fuente: Wealth, 1889, p. 655

„The sound rule in busi­ness is that you may give money freely when you have a sur­plus, but your name never—nei­ther as en­dorser nor as mem­ber of a cor­po­ra­tion with in­di­vid­ual li­a­bil­ity“

—  Andrew Carnegie

Chapter XVI

„Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire will be but a trustee of the poor; intrusted for a season with a great part of the increased wealth of the community, but administering it for the community far better than it could or would have done for itself.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

Fuente: Wealth, 1889, pp. 663-664

„The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

Fuente: Wealth, 1889, p. 653

„Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

Fuente: Wealth, 1889, p. 662

„No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man be­hind a king when I find him.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

Chapter XXIX

„Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now… Oh, please don't speak to me of money!“

—  Andrew Carnegie

Chapter VII

„Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

Quoted in: George J. Borjas (2001) Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy. p. 132

„Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves.“

—  Andrew Carnegie

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/filmmore/transcript/

„Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring "Peace on earth, among men Good Will."“

—  Andrew Carnegie

Fuente: Wealth, 1889, p. 664