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Andrew Carnegie

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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


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Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself


— Andrew Carnegie


#inspirational #humor

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it


— Andrew Carnegie


#inspirational

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.


— Andrew Carnegie


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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.


— Andrew Carnegie


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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.


— Andrew Carnegie


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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.


— Andrew Carnegie


#credit #doing #get #great #himself

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.


— Andrew Carnegie


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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.


— Andrew Carnegie


#capital #concentrate #eggs #energies #his

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.


— Andrew Carnegie


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About Andrew Carnegie






Did you know about Andrew Carnegie?

As such the workers would have been well within their rights to protest and subsequent government action would have been a set of criminal procedures designed to crush what was seen as a pivotal demonstration of the growing labor rights movement strongly opposed by management. The second was in his vertical integration of all suppliers of raw materials. His interest in music led him to fund construction of 7000 church organs.

He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company which he sold to J. He was also one of the highest profile philanthropists of his era; his 1889 article "Wealth" (known more commonly—particularly in colloquial parlance—as "The Gospel of Wealth") remains a formative advisory text for those who aspire to lead philanthropic lives.

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