
Anything in life worth having is worth working for!
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Other Andrew Carnegie quotes:
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
If thou dost not sow, thou shalt not reap.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.