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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

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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.

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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

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No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man behind a king when I find him.

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