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Andrew Carnegie's thinking on Focus goes deeper than surface-level advice. This curated archive brings together their essential quotes on the subject, revealing patterns and principles you can apply immediately. Each entry includes full source context, allowing you to understand not just what they said, but why it matters. Whether you're navigating challenges or pursuing mastery, these insights offer the mental models you need to think clearly about Focus.
"The mind must be bent on the task at hand."
"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."
"I don't believe in the man who says he can do many things."
"Success is the result of the application of the mind to one thing."
"Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket."
"The human mind is a strange machine. It can be either your best servant or your worst master."
"The man who succeeds is the man who can think and who can concentrate his mind upon his work."
"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."
"Don't scatter your powers. Spread the net wide, but focus the mind."
"Put your heart into your work, and your mind into your focus."
"Watch that basket with every fiber of your being."
"He who cannot concentrate is a leaf in the wind."
"Concentration is my motto — first honesty, then industry, then concentration."
"The man who is to succeed must be a man of one idea."
"One great cause of failure of young men in business is their lack of concentration."
"The men who have succeeded are those who have chosen one line and stuck to it."
"The road to success is the road of concentration."
"The secret of fortune is the secret of focus."
"A man who has no focus is like a ship without a rudder."
"There is no use in a man who cannot focus."
"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs."
"Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket."
"The mind that is scattered is a mind that is weak."
"Concentrate your whole time and attention on the one business in life in which you engage."
"Every act you perform is either leading you toward your goal or away from it."
"Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."
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