Andrew Carnegie

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

Topic: Action, Leadership
Location: Hawaii, Maui
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

› Andrew Carnegie

Action Goals Purpose

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

› Andrew Carnegie

Success

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%.

› Andrew Carnegie

Ability Action Commitment Decision Leadership

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

› Andrew Carnegie

Ability Leadership Power Self

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.

› Andrew Carnegie

Business Competition

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. — Andrew Carnegie

Team Vision

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

› Andrew Carnegie

Society Wealth

Thinking

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Courage

Talk can get you there, but action will embrace. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Communication

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel Proust

Friendship Gratitude Happiness Love Networking

Reputation

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. — Chinese Proverb

Appreciation Gratitude Reputation

That which cost little is less valued. — Miguel de Cervantes

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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. — John F. Kennedy

Action Dedication

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. — Margaret Mead

Action Communication Reputation

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. — Nelson Mandela

Action Courage Fear Goals Purpose

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. — William James

Action

Tall oaks from little acorns grow. — Latin Proverb

Action Goals Purpose Vision

Heaven never helps the man who will not act. — Sophocles

Action Communication Speech

Action expresses priorities.

› Mohandas Gandhi

Action Goals Purpose

The effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. — Alexander Hamilton

Action Genius Thinking Work

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action Commitment Gratitude Purpose Vision Work

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Action Integrity Leadership Thinking

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

› Seneca

Action Thinking

I’ll turn over a new leaf. — Miguel de Cervantes

Action Adversity

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. — Mark Twain

Action Communication Leadership

Vision without execution is hallucination.

› Thomas Edison

Action Vision

Thought is action in rehearsal. — Sigmund Freud

Action Thinking

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

› Ulysses S. Grant

Action Consistent Planning

Prosperity has its duties as well as its rights. — Benjamin Disraeli

Action Freedom Responsibility

Action

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. — Benjamin Franklin

Character Leadership Quality Reputation

Oaths are but words, and words but wind. — Samuel Butler

Action Leadership

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. — Peter Drucker

Leadership Responsibility

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

› Marcus Aurelius

Choice Leadership Responsibility

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

› Ulysses S. Grant

Leadership

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

› Rumi

Leadership Self

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

› Mohandas Gandhi

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