Andrew Carnegie

United States
25 Nov 1835 // 11 Aug 1919
Industrialist

Whatever your wages are, save a little. Live within your means. The heads of stores, farms, banks...insurance companies, mills and factories are not seeking capital; they are seeking brains and business habits. The man who saves...has given the surest indication of the qualities which every employer is seeking for.

'From Oakland: How to Succeed in Life,' The Pittsburgh Bulletin (1903)

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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."
Human, All Too Human
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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