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Andrew Carnegie Famous Quotations

Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919) was a Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and a major philanthropist. These famous quotes dealing with goals, achievement, and success have been attributed to him.

• Aim for the highest.
• Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
• Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
• Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
• No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
• People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
• The 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.
• The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
• The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
• There is little success where there is little laughter.
• Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
• Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
• You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.