Andrew Carnegie Quotes - Page 6

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• A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Destiny, Men, Looks

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.24, 谷月社

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• Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Real, Ninety, Estates

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• The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Leaving, Passing Away

  "The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays". Book by Andrew Carnegie, 1900.

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• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Average, Work Ethic, Energy

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• Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Three, Generations, Three Generations

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

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• I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Giving, Dollars, Proof

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• ...the law which is never to be broken is never required.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Law, Broken

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.22, Penguin

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• Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Race, Evil, Energy

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.14, Penguin

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• Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Mean, Race, Community

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

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• And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Business, Insperational

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

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• It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Girl, Ambition, Boys

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.30, 谷月社

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• I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Father, Heart

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• Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Golf, Indispensable, Civilisation

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• All is well since all grows better

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wells, Grows

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.276, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Weakness, Sound, Morality

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• He that cannot reason is a fool.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Fool, Reason

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

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• Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Law, Competition, Soil

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

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• If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

  Andrew Carnegie

  School, Community, Library

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• When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Party, Pennsylvania

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• The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Real, Men

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• The sound rule in busi­ness is that you may give money freely when you have a sur­plus, but your name never-nei­ther as en­dorser nor as mem­ber of a cor­po­ra­tion with in­di­vid­ual li­a­bil­ity

  Andrew Carnegie

  Names, Giving, Sound

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.139, 谷月社

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• Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Heart, Boys, Pittsburgh

  Andrew Carnegie, Margaret Barclay Wilson (1915). “A Carnegie Anthology”

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• The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Giving, Democracy, Realization

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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

  Inspirational, Time, Community

  "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889

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• There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Causes, Millionaire, Righteous

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