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Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman and major philanthropist and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company which later became U. S. Steel. He is known for having, later in his life, given away most of his riches to fund the establishment of many libraries, schools, and universities in America and worldwide. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."

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"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."

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"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."

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"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."

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"I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar."

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

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

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"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."

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"You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself."

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"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."

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