All ANDREW CARNEGIE Quotes about “Charity”

“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.”
“Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.”
“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”
“It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.”
“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.”
“Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.”
“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.”

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