Andrew Carnegie Wise Quotations

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

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.

The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

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.'

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.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital.... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.