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Andrew Carnegie

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.


— Andrew Carnegie


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Aim for the highest.


— Andrew Carnegie


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The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.


— Andrew Carnegie


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Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.


— Andrew Carnegie


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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.


— Andrew Carnegie


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Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.


— Andrew Carnegie


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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.


— Andrew Carnegie


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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.


— Andrew Carnegie


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Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.


— Andrew Carnegie


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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.


— 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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