andrew carnegie

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

“ No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Concentrate your energy, your thoughts, and your capital. ”

“ The experienced in affairs always rate the MAN whose services can be obtained as a partner as not only the first consideration but such as to render the question of his capital scarcely worth considering, for such men soon create capital; while, without the special talent required, capital soon takes wings. ”

“ Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. ”

“ No, your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man be ”

“ The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. ”