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Andrew Carnegie

Posted by vpitre on May 16, 2009

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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.

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All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

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

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

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.

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

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.

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