Andrew Carnegie Quotes - Page 7

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• Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Partners, Grows

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• There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Office, Democracy, Library

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• Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

  Andrew Carnegie

  Home, Dark, Light

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• Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Civilization, Dollars, Saving

  Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin (2015). “The ABC of Money: Including The Way to Wealth and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.51, Cosimo Classics

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• That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Statistics, Failing, Incredibles

  Andrew Carnegie (2007). “The Empire of Business”, p.209, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Running, Men, Long

  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.1082, Open Road Media

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• The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Civilization, World, Rewards

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• Steel is prince or pauper.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Steel

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• I can't afford to pay them any other way.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Pay, Way

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• The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Work, Law, Luxury

  Andrew Carnegie (2014). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay The Gospel of Wealth”, p.278, Courier Corporation

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• Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Race, Charity

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.19, Penguin

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• To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Peace, Men, Century

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