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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Other Andrew Carnegie quotes:
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought personally in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties - something which attracts the attention of those over him.
Do real and permanent good in this world.
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage - they have little competition.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
What one does easily, one does well.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
