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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.

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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.

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As I Grow Older, I Pay Less Attention To What Men Say. I Just Watch What They Do.

Give Me The Life Of The Boy Whose Mother Is Nurse, Seamstress, Washerwoman, Cook, Teacher, Angel, And Saint, All In One, And Whose Father Is Guide, Exemplar, And Friend. No Servants To Come Between. These Are The Boys Who Are Born To The Best Fortune.

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To Kill A Man Will Be Considered As Disgusting [in The Twentieth Century] As We In This Day Consider It Disgusting To Eat One.

Teamwork Appears Most Effective If Each Individual Helps Others To Succeed, Increasing The Synergy Of That Team; Ideally, Every Person Will Contribute Different Skills To Increase The Efficiency Of The Team And Develop Its Unity.

Every Act You Have Ever Performed Since The Day You Were Born Was Performed Because You Wanted Something.

Mr. Morgan Buys His Partners; I Grow My Own.

The Sole Purpose Of Being Rich Is To Give Away Money.

A Business Is Seldom If Ever Built Up Except On Lines Of Strictest Integrity.

The Only Irreplaceable Capital An Organization Possesses Is The Knowledge And Ability Of Its People. The Productivity Of That Capital Depends On How Effectively People Share Their Competence With Those Who Can Use It.

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The Wise Young Man Or Wage Earner Of Today Invests His Money In Real Estate.

The Morality Of Compromise Sounds Contradictory.

The Older I Get The Less I Listen To What People Say And The More I Look At What They Do.

A Man's Reading Program Should Be As Carefully Planned As His Daily Diet, For That Too Is Food, Without Which He Cannot Grow Mentally.

The Man Of Business Knows That Only By Years Of Patient, Unremitting Attention To Affairs Can He Earn His Reward, Which Is The Result, Not Of Chance, But Of Well-devised Means For The Attainment Of Ends.

I Wish To Have As My Epitaph: 'here Lies A Man Who Was Wise Enough To Bring Into His Service Men Who Knew More Than He.'

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.

Do Your Duty And A Little More And The Future Will Take Care Of Itself.

The Secret Of Success Lies Not In Doing Your Own Work, But In Recognizing The Right Man To Do It.

The Greatest Astonishment Of My Life Was The Discovery That The Man Who Does The Work Is Not The Man Who Gets Rich

There Is Scarcely An Instance Of A Man Who Has Made A Fortune By Speculation And Kept It

Don't Be Content With Doing Only Your Duty. Do More Than Your Duty. It's The Horse That Finishes A Neck Ahead That Wins The Race.

A Sunny Disposition Is Worth More Than [a Monetary] Fortune. Young People Should Know That It Can Be Cultivated; That The Mind Like The Body Can Be Moved From The Shade Into Sunshine.

What One Does Easily, One Does Well.

There Are Two Types Of People Who Never Achieve Very Much In Their Lifetimes. One Is The Person Who Won't Do What He Or She Is Told To Do, And The Other Is The Person Who Does No More Than He Or She Is Told To Do.

Concentrate Your Energy, Your Thoughts And Your Capital.

I Don't Believe In God. My God Is Patriotism. Teach A Man To Be A Good Citizen And You Have Solved The Problem Of Life.

I Demand Riches In Definite Terms; I Have A Definite Plan For Acquiring Riches;i Am Engaged In Carrying Out My Plan, And I Am Giving An Equivalent,in Useful Service, Of The Value Of Those Riches I Demand.

My Hopes Were High, And I Looked Every Day For Some Change To Take Place. What It Was To Be I Knew Not, But That It Would Come I Felt Certain If I Kept On. One Day The Chance Came.

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.

The Secret Of Happiness Is Renunciation.

Give Me A Man With An Average Ability But A Burning Desire To Succeed And I Will Give You A Winner In Exchange Every Time.

Men Who Reach Decisions Promptly Usually Have The Capacity To Move With Definiteness Of Purpose In Other Circumstances.

Golf Is An Indispensable Adjunct To High Civilisation.

Here Is The Prime Condition Of Success: 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.

There Is No Way Of Making A Business Successful That Can Vie With The Policy Of Promoting Those Who Render Exceptional Service.

The Worlds Civilization Started From The Day On Which Everyone Received Reward For Labour.

...the Law Which Is Never To Be Broken Is Never Required.

I Shall Argue That Strong Men, Conversely, Know When To Compromise And That All Principles Can Be Compromised To Serve A Greater Principle.

A Library Outranks Any Other One Thing A Community Can Do To Benefit Its People. It Is A Never Failing Spring In The Desert.

Do Not Look For Approval Except For The Consciousness Of Doing Your Best.

I Have Never Known A Concern To Make A Decided Success That Did Not Do Good, Honest Work, And Even In These Days Of Fiercest Competition, When Everything Would Seem To Be A Matter Of Price, There Lies Still At The Root Of Great Business Success The Very Much More Important Factor Of Quality. The Effect Of Attention To Quality, Upon Every Man In The Service, From The President Of The Concern Down To The Humblest Laborer, Cannot Be Overestimated.

Touch His Head, And He Will Bargain And Argue With You To The Last; Touch His Heart, And He Falls Upon Your Breast.

A Sunny Disposition Is Worth More Than Fortune.

I Began To Learn What Poverty Meant. It Was Burnt In My Heart Then That My Father Had To Beg For Work And There Came The Resolve That I Would Cure That When I Got To Be A Man.

No Man Becomes Rich Unless He Enriches Others.

Pittsburgh Entered The Core Of My Heart When I Was A Boy And Cannot Be Torn Out.

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Do Not Think A Man Has Done His Full Duty When He Has Performed The Work Assigned Him. A Man Will Never Rise If He Does Only This. Promotion Comes From Exceptional Work.

The Man Who Dies Rich, Dies Disgraced.

Watch The Costs And The Profits Will Take Care Of Themselves.

There Is No Class So Pitiably Wretched As That Which Possesses Money And Nothing Else.

There Is Nothing That Robs A Righteous Cause Of Its Strength More Than A Millionaire's Money.

The Day Is Not Far Distant When The Man Who Dies Leaving Behind Him Millions Of Available Wealth, Which Was Free For Him To Administer During Life, Will Pass Away Unwept, Unhonored, And Unsung, No Matter To What Uses He Leave The Dross Which He Cannot Take With Him. Of Such As These The Public Verdict Will Then Be: The Man Who Dies Thus Rich Dies Disgraced. 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.

The More Difficult A Problem Becomes, The More Interesting It Is.

Problem Solving

If You Want To Be Happy, Set A Goal That Commands Your Thoughts, Liberates Your Energy, And Inspires Your Hopes.

Strong Men Don't Compromise, It Is Said, And Principles Should Never Be Compromised.

No Man Can Become Rich Without Himself Enriching Others

Nothing Tells In The Long Run Like A Good Judgment, And No Sound Judgment Can Remain With The Man Whose Mind Is Disturbed By The Mercurial Changes Of The Stock Exchange. It Places Him Under An Influence Akin To Intoxication. What Is Not, He Sees, And What He Sees, Is Not.

The Men Who Have Succeeded Are Men Who Have Chosen One Line And Stuck To It.

Capitalism Is About Turning Luxuries Into Necessities.

I Resolved To Stop Accumulating And Begin The Infinitely More Serious And Difficult Task Of Wise Distribution.

Any Idea That Is Held In The Mind, That Is Emphasized, That Is Either Feared Or Revered, Will Begin At Once To Cloth Itself In The Most Convenient And Appropriate Form Available.

One Great Cause Of Failure Of Young Men In Business Is Lack Of Concentration.

Here Lies One Who Knew How To Get Around Him Men Who Were Cleverer Than Himself

He That Cannot Reason Is A Fool. He That Will Not Is A Bigot. He That Dare Not Is A Slave.

Ninety Percent Of All Millionaires Become So Through Owning Real Estate.

The Price Which Society Pays For The Law Of Competition, Like The Price It Pays For Cheap Comforts And Luxuries, Is Great; But The Advantages Of This Law Are Also Greater Still Than Its Cost- For It Is To This Law That We Owe Our Wonderful Material Development, Which Brings Improved Conditions In Its Train.

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There Is Little Success Where There Is Little Laughter.

Those Who Would Administer Wisely Must, Indeed, Be Wise, For One Of The Serious Obstacles To The Improvement Of Our Race Is Indiscriminate Charity.

Pioneering Don't Pay.

A Man Who Was Generous With His Wealth. It Has Been Reported That During His Lifetime, Carnegie Gave Away Over $350 Million Of His Money To Help Others.

Why Should Men Leave Great Fortunes To Their Children? If This Is Done From Affection, Is It Not Misguided Affection? Observation Teaches That, Generally Speaking, It Is Not Well For The Children That They Should Be So Burdened.

Not Evil, But Good, Has Come To The Race From The Accumulation Of Wealth By Those Who Have The Ability And Energy That Produce It.

Success Is The Power To Acquire Whatever One Demands Of Life Without Violating The Rights Of Others.

I Am No Longer Cursed By Poverty Because I Took Possession Of My Own Mind, And That Mind Has Yielded Me Every Material Thing I Want, And Much More Than I Need. But This Power Of Mind Is A Universal One, Available To The Humblest Person As It Is To The Greatest.

Law Of Attraction

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Wisdom Experience

I Spent The First Half Of My Life Making Money And The Second Half Of My Life Giving It Away To Do The Most Good And The Least Harm.

That 95 Per Cent. Fail Of Those Who Start In Business Upon Their Own Account Seems Incredible, And Yet Such Are Said To Be The Statistics Upon The Subject.

He That Cannot Reason Is A Fool.

You Are What You Think. So Just Think Big, Believe Big, Act Big, Work Big, Give Big, Forgive Big, Laugh Big, Love Big And Live Big.

Any Person Can Achieve Greatness If They Understand The Philosophy Of Success And The Steps Required To Achieve It.

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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.

Mutual Ignorance Breeds Mutual Distrust.

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 A Few, And The Law Of Competition Between These, As Being Not Only Beneficial, But Essential For The Future Progress Of The Race.

Whatever I Engage In, I Must Push Inordinately.

Teamwork Is The Ability To Work Together Toward A Common Vision. The Ability To Direct Individual Accomplishments Toward Organizational Objectives. It Is The Fuel That Allows Common People To Attain Uncommon Results.

All Honor's Wounds Are Self-inflicted.

It Marks A Big Step In Your Development When You Come To Realize That Other People Can Help You Do A Better Job Than You Could Do Alone.

Concentrate Your Energy, Thought And Capital Exclusively Upon The Business In Which You Are Engaged... 'don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket' Is All Wrong. I Tell You 'put All Your Eggs In One Basket, And Then Watch That Basket.'

Do Real And Permanent Good In This World.

Concentration Is My Motto - First Honesty, Then Industry, Then Concentration.

There Is Not Such A Cradle Of Democracy Upon The Earth As The Free Public Library, This Republic Of Letters, Where Neither Rank, Office, Nor Wealth Receives The Slightest Consideration.

Put All Your Eggs In One Basket And Then Watch That Basket.

Business Success

You Cannot Push Any One Up A Ladder Unless He Be Willing To Climb A Little Himself.

The Average Person Puts Only 25% Of His Energy And Ability Into His Work.

Think Of Yourself As On The Threshold Of Unparalleled Success. A Whole, Clear, Glorious Life Lies Before You. Achieve! Achieve!

Young Man, Make Your Name Worth Something.

I Will Give A Million Dollars For Any Convincing Proof Of A Future Life.

The First Thing To Do About An Obstacle Is Simply To Stand Up To It And Not Complain About It Or Whine Under It But Forthrightly Attack It. Stand Up To Your Obstacles And Do Something About Them. You Will Find That They Haven't Half The Strength You Think They Have. Just Stand Up To It, That's All, And Don't Give Way Under It, And It Will Finally Break. You Will Break It. Something Has To Break And It Won't Be You, It Will Be The Obstacle.

When I Did Big Things, Some Large Corporations Like The Pennsylvania Railroad Company Were Behind Me And Responsible Party.

Upon The Sacredness Of Property Civilization Itself Depends-the Right Of The Laborer To His Hundred Dollars In The Savings Bank, And Equally The Legal Right Of The Millionaire To His Millions.

Surplus Wealth Is A Sacred Trust To Be Managed For The Good Of Others.

Take Away My People, But Leave My Factories And Soon Grass Will Grow On The Factory Floors......take Away My Factories, But Leave My People And Soon We Will Have A New And Better Factory.

There Is A Power Under Your Control That Is Greater Than Poverty, Greater Than The Lack Of Education, Greater Than All Your Fears And Superstitions Combined. It Is The Power To Take Possession Of Your Own Mind And Direct It To Whatever Ends You May Desire.

All Is Well Since All Grows Better

I Give Money For Church Organs In The Hope The Organ Music Will Distract The Congregation's Attention From The Rest Of The Service.

Anything In Life Worth Having Is Worth Working For.

People Who Are Unable To Motivate Themselves Must Be Content With Mediocrity, No Matter How Impressive Their Other Talents.

The Surest Foundation Of A Manufacturing Concern Is Quality. After That, And A Long Way After, Comes Cost.

Ninety Percent Of All Millionaires Become So Through Owning Real Estate. More Money Has Been Made In Real Estate Than In All Industrial Investments Combined. The Wise Young Man Or Wage Earner Of Today Invests His Money In Real Estate.

It Is Trying To Be Other Than One's Self That Unmans One. Be Your Own Natural Self And Go Ahead.

Success Can Be Attained In Any Branch Of Labor. There’s Always Room At The Top In Every Pursuit.

The Republic May Not Give Wealth Or Happiness, She Has Not Promised These. It Is The Freedom To Pursue These, Not Their Realization, We Can Claim.

Teamwork: The Fuel That Allows Common People Attain Uncommon Results.

Be King In Your Dreams. Make Your Vow That You Will Reach That Position, With Untarnished Reputation, And Make No Other Vow To Distract Your Attention.

Strength Is Derived From Unity. The Range Of Our Collective Vision Is Far Greater When Individual Insights Become One.

Three Generations From Shirtsleeves To Shirtsleeves.

Three Generations

You Must Capture And Keep The Heart Of The Original And Supremely Able Man Before His Brain Can Do Its Best.

Teamwork Is The Ability To Work Together Toward A Common Vision.

Individual Effort

If Thou Dost Not Sow, Thou Shalt Not Reap.

Every Man Gravitates To Where He Belongs In Life, Just As Surely As Water Seeks And Finds Its Level. His Position Is Measured Precisely By The Quality And Quantity Of The Service He Renders, Plus The Mental Attitude With Which He Relates Himself To Other People.

I Can't Afford To Pay Them Any Other Way.

I Would As Soon Leave My Son A Curse As The Almighty Dollar.

The Public Only Knows One Side Of [mark Mark Twain] - The Amusing Part. Little Does It Suspect That He Was A Man Of Strong Convictions Upon Political And Social Questions And A Moralist Of No Mean Order.

Those Who Would Administer [charity] Wisely Must, Indeed, Be Wise, For One Of The Serious Obstacles To The Improvement Of Our Race Is Indiscriminate Charity. It Were Better For Mankind That The Millions Of The Rich Were Thrown Into The Sea Than Spent To Encourage The Slothful, The Drunken, The Unworthy. Of Every Thousand Dollars Spent In So-called Charity Today, It Is Probable That Nine Hundred And Fifty Dollars Is Unwisely Spent - So Spent, Indeed, As To Produce The Very Evils Which It Hopes To Mitigate Or Cure.

Private Property, The Law Of Accumulation Of Wealth, And The Law Of Competition... These Are The Highest Results Of Human Experience, The Soil In Which Society So Far Has Produced The Best Fruit.

The First Man Gets The Oyster, The Second Man Gets The Shell.

Humanities Education Is The Worst Thing For An Industrialist.

If It Is Right That Schools Should Be Maintained By The Whole Community For The Well-being Of The Whole, It Is Right Also That Libraries Should Be So Maintained.

The Battle Of Life Is Already Half Won By The Young Man Who Is Brought 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.

Show Me A Man Of Average Ability But Extraordinary Desire And I'll Show You A Winner Every Time.

There Is No Idol More Debasing Than The Worship Of Money.

When Fate Hands Us A Lemon, Let's Try To Make Lemonade.

Famous Inspirational

A Word, A Look, An Accent, May Affect The Destiny Not Only Of Individuals, But Of Nations. He Is A Bold Man Who Calls Anything A Trifle.

There Is Very Little Success Where There Is Very Little Laughter.

Concentrate Your Energies, Your Thoughts And Your Capital. The Wise Man Puts All His Eggs In One Basket And Watches The Basket.

Neither The Individual Nor The Race Is Improved By Almsgiving. The Best Means Of Benefiting The Community Is To Place Within Its Reach The Ladders Upon Which The Aspiring Can Rise.

And There Is No Use Whatever, Gentlemen, Trying To Help People Who Do Not Help Themselves. You Cannot Push Any One Up A Ladder Unless He Be Willing To Climb A Little Himself.

Help And Support

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

There Is No Use Whatsoever In Trying To Help People Who Do Not Help Themselves.

Help And Support

The Best Time To Expand Is When No One Else Dares To Take Risks

Steel Is Prince Or Pauper.

The Man Who Dies Leaving Behind Him Millions Of Available Wealth, Which Was His To Administer During His Life, Will Pass Away Unwept, Unhonoured And Insung No Matter To What Uses He Leaves The Dross Which He Cannot Take With Him.

The Rare Individuals Who Unselfishly Try To Serve Others Have An Enormous Advantage-they Have Little Competition.

Wealth Is Not To Feed Our Egos But To Feed The Hungry And To Help People Help Themselves.

Speculation Is A Parasite Feeding Upon Values, Creating None.

I Have Had A Long, Long Life Full Of Troubles, But There Is One Curious Fact About Them-nine-tenths Of Them Never Happened.

Immense Power Is Acquired By Assuring Yourself In Your Secret Reveries That You Were Born To Control Affairs.

It Is More Difficult To Give Money Away Intelligently Than To Earn It In The First Place.

In [my] Life ... I Did Not Understand Steam Machinery, But I Tried To Understand That Much More Complicated Piece Of Mechanism - Man.

I Choose Free Libraries As The Best Agencies For Improving The Masses Of The People, Because They Give Nothing For Nothing. They Only Help Those Who Help Themselves.

No Man Will Make A Great Leader Who Wants To Do It All Himself Or Get All The Credit For Doing It.

Life Is Not So Much A Matter Of Position As Of Disposition.

Surplus Wealth Is A Sacred Trust Which Its Possessor Is Bound To Administer In His Lifetime For The Good Of The Community.

You Develop Millionaires The Way You Mine Gold. You Expect To Move Tons Of Dirt To Find An Ounce Of Gold, But You Don't Go Into The Mine Looking For The Dirt-you Go In Looking For The Gold.

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%.

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