Andrew Carnegie

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Aim for the highest

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

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

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

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.

He is richest who is content with the least.

My life with Roman was not the fairytale that the papers reported.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

very day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia – I believe that is my greatest wealth.

We went to theatres and museums with a crowd of bodyguards.

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.

The only wealth I have to give is not material and if you need much more than that, I’m not available.

No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.