Andrew Carnegie Quotes

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

The moral problem of our day is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life…

A quarter of a century ago, we were crazy about politics. Now we are crazy about making money …. I am afraid that one day we will become money hooligans without culture.

No one seems to care for anything but about money today. Nothing is held of account except the bank accounts. Quality, education, civic distinction, public virtue seem each year to be valued less and less.

Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.

At times, I can be a slave to money.

The love for money is only one among many.

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...