Andrew Carnegie
United States
25 Nov 1835 // 11 Aug 1919
Industrialist
25 Nov 1835 // 11 Aug 1919
Industrialist
I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen...who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reachIt is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Address, at the presentation of the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1895)
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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