Andrew Carnegie Quotes About Charity

Quotes about: Charity

• And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Helping Others, Help And Support, People

  "The Empire of Business".

• Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspiration, People, Giving

• The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889

• It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Giving, Charity, Firsts

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

  Andrew Carnegie (2014). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay: The Gospel of Wealth”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Race, Charity

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.19, Penguin

• 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.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Race, Sea

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