He was #3 on the list of Top 25 Visionaries and #14 on the list of 25 Businessmen Who Broke The Rules And Won.
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and philanthropist. He built Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Steel Company and merged it with other steel businesses to build an empire. By the 1890s, the company was the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world. Andrew Carnegie is often regarded as the second richest man in history.
What can you learn from his success?
1. Keep a Positive Attitude
“A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine. There is little success where there is little laughter. Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
2. Believe In Yourself
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
3. Never Compromise
“The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.”
4. Be First
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. Aim for the highest.”
5. Be The Best
“And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it; adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. Success can be attained in any branch of human labor. There is always room at the top in every pursuit. Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital…. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.”
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity.. these are the words that most inspired me. They are urging the humans to realize that they have amazing talents hidden inside, one just needs to know that how to deal with oneself. If we begin applying it to our lives, our businesses, there is no doubt that success will be our fate. It is said that there is no prize for a runner up in a race. we must realize it.
Andrew Carnegie is the example of all the strengths we ordianry humans can contain to become extraordinary!
Andew Carnegie inspired so many to greatness, it had to be intentional. I believe that his desire to have his success principles duplicated (i.e. Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill) is one of the primary reasons why he is remembered today and inevitably a key reason why he prospered so abundantly. That’s something every highly ambitious entrepeneur should make note of…
I am reding Dale Carnige now a days, and He has mentioned andrew as a man of vision and freindly personality.
this are the the great guidness for me to be best….
i’ll concerntrate on my-self only.and hope you also do….
thank you.
Andrew Carnegie is most inspiring – u should check out his work with napoleon hill – that guy was a true mastermind
i think this will interest u: http://malcolmred.co.uk
i love to become one the richest men in the world and i have started today 20th/10/2009 iam postgraduate at makerere kla but i admire such pple u know i studied using rockfeller money but any way i believe at one day i will be a philanthropist.
Need’s Not To Mention They Are 2 GIG’s. Enough