Andrew Carnegie

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Aim for the highest

90% of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

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

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Accept the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage.

Everything in life is luck.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.