The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. – Andrew Carnegie
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. – Andrew Carnegie
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. – Andrew Carnegie
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. – Andrew Carnegie
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion. – Raymond Chandler