A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

— Andrew Carnegie

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

— Andrew Carnegie

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

— Andrew Carnegie

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

— Andrew Carnegie

Concentrate your energies your thoughts and your capital. ... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

— Andrew Carnegie

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

— Andrew Carnegie

If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual

— Andrew Carnegie

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

— Andrew Carnegie

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

— Andrew Carnegie