Andrew Carnegie Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Spring, People, Community

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Time, Community

  "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889

• The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Wisdom Experience, Community

• If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

  Andrew Carnegie

  School, Community, Library

• Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Mean, Race, Community

  Andrew Carnegie (1992). “The Andrew Carnegie reader”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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