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Andrew Carnegie Quotes
«I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the v»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
competition, decided, do good, fiercest, These Days
«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 boys and girls who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
applied, Boys and Girls, founding, productive, public libraries, public library, the founding
«The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
administration, brotherhood, harmonious, ties, Ties That Bind
«We accept and welcome... 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.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
accommodate, accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, beneficial, commercial, concentration, essential condition, industrial, inequality
«This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
administer, agent, An example, An example of, beneficial, brethren, calculated, called upon, community service, dependent, display, legitimate, moderately, modest, poorer, revenues, shunning, strictly, trustee, trustees, trust fund, unostentatious
«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»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
bank, dollars, laborer, legal, legal right, millionaire, sacredness, savings, savings bank
«Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.»
«The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
first man, oyster, oysters, shell, shells