9 Best Andrew Carnegie Quotes

Business & Books
2 min readMar 24, 2023

Below is a quick biography of Andrew Carnegie along with his nine best quotes:

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Who is Andrew Carnegie?

Andrew Carnegie was an American businessman who amassed his fortune in the steel industry in Pittsburgh. He was born in 1835 in Scotland and moved to the United States as a young boy. In the 1870s he co-founded his first steel company, and work for twenty years to decrease inefficiencies and increase profits before selling his company for $480 million.

9 Best Andrew Carnegie Quotes

1. “The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich”

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

3. “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents”

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

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