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1835–1919 Scotland
Andrew Carnegie (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company, which later became U.S. Steel.
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The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
"All is well since all grows better” became my motto, my true source of comfort.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
Managing Software Development Projects : Formula for Success (1995)
No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man behind a king when I find him.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.
George J. Borjas (2001)
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.
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.
To be popular is easy; to be right when right is unpopular, is noble... I repudiate with scorn the immoral doctrine, 'Our country, right or wrong'.
"Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often his additions tend not to happiness but to misery!"
Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves.
Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring "Peace on earth, among men Good Will."
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
Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection?
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the "dark horse" in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
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.
The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays (1900)
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.
Wise men will soon conclude that, for the best interests of the members of their families and of the state, such bequests are an improper use of their means.
[S]urplus wealth should be considered as a sacred trust, to be administered during the lives of its owners, by them as trustees, for the good of the community in which and from which it had been acquired.
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