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• My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

  Andrew Carnegie

  One Day, Chance, Certain

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.23, 谷月社

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• Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Basketball, Business, Men

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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

  Spring, People, Community

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Born, Wanted

  "How to Win Friends and Influence People". Book by Dale Carnegie, p. 40, 2016.

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• I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Long, Nine, Facts

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1089, Open Road Media

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• I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Believe, Commitment, Achievement

  Andrew Carnegie (2011). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.176, PublicAffairs

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• The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Boys, Men, Battle

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.63, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Energy

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• Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Matter, Life Is, Disposition

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• There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Successful, Way, Exceptional

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.125, 谷月社

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Money, Life And Love

  Andrew Carnegie (1968). “Miscellaneous Writings of Andrew Carnegie”

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• While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Science, Race, Hands

  1889 'The Gospel of Wealth', in the North American Review, Jun.

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Character

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• Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Humanity, Worst, Capitalism

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• The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  Andrew Carnegie (2007). “The Empire of Business”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Unity, Vision, Collaboration

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• I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Atheist, Giving, Religion

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• Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Children, Men, Done

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.15, Penguin

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• Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"

  Andrew Carnegie

  Substitutes, Employers

  Andrew Carnegie (2007). “The Empire of Business”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Any idea that is held in the mind, that is emphasized, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to cloth itself in the most convenient and appropriate form available.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Strong, Men, Principles

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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

  Funny, Wisdom, Intelligence

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.69, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Pioneering don't pay.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Pay, Exploration, Pioneering

  Andrew Carnegie (1992). “The Andrew Carnegie reader”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Integrity, Lines, Ethics

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.140, Sheba Blake Publishing

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