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Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late-19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
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Born 25 November 1835 · Died 11 August 1919 · Q484265
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The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there and everywhere. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is all wrong. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.
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Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve, achieve!
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2026· 9 entries
The Times of India: 1840s, Pennsylvania: 13-year-old Andrew Carnegie earned $1.20 a week before building a massive steel fort
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Informat.ro: The 2027 elections could multiply deadlocks over the budget and EU enlargement, warns a Carnegie Europe researcher
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Colorado Public Radio: A Colorado kids choir sings about dreams and fulfills a big one with a Carnegie Hall premiere
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Fuel Car Magazine: Andrew Carnegie Us Steel Stock Today United Steel
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Andrew Carnegie: 'The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.' Life lessons on recognising opportunities, taking initiative, ambition ...
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Andrew Carnegie: 'The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.' Life
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Dunfermline Press: Dunfermline’s Andrew Carnegie brought to life in musical at Edinburgh Fringe
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CNBC: Andrew Carnegie: From steel titan to enduring philanthropist
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2025· 1 entry
Dollars), almost 90 percent of his fortune, to charities, foundations and universities
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2024· 1 entry
Benzinga.com: 5 Wealth-Building Secrets Straight From Andrew Carnegie's Playbook
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2020· 1 entry
SFGate: How Andrew Carnegie Found Success in the Face of Failure
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2018· 1 entry
Houston Chronicle: How Andrew Carnegie Went From $1.20 a Week to $309 Billion ... Then Gave It All Away
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2017· 1 entry
PBS: Biography: Andrew Carnegie
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1920· 1 entry
“Carnegie, Andrew (1920). Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie with Illustrations. Retrieved on July 4, 2014.”
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1919· 39 entries
Died 1919-08-11.
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In Lenox, Massachusetts, at his Shadow Brook estate, of bronchial pneumonia
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Carnegie had donated $350,695,654 for various causes
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“Las personas que son incapaces de motivarse deben estar contentas con la mediocridad, sin importar cuán impresionantes sean sus otros talentos». [People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents].”
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“El primero recibe la ostra, el segundo la concha». [The first man gets the oyster; the second man gets the shell].”
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“US-amerikanischer Industrieller und Philanthrop”
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“Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now... Oh, please don't speak to me of money!”
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“It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the "dark horse" in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.”
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“As to the second mode, that of leaving wealth at death for public uses, it may be said that this is only a means for the disposal of wealth, provided a man is content to wait until he is dead before it becomes of much good in the world.”
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“Wise men will soon conclude that, for the best interests of the members of their families and of the state, such bequests are an improper use of their means.”
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“Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection?”
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“[S]urplus wealth should be considered as a sacred trust, to be administered during the lives of its owners, by them as trustees, for the good of the community in which and from which it had been acquired.”
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“Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring "Peace on earth, among men Good Will.”
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“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
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“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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“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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“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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“p. 353 General Conclusions.”
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“Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves.”
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“Si quieres ser feliz, establece una meta que controle tus pensamientos, libera tu energía y anima tus esperanzas».[If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes].”
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“Andrew Carnegie sobre a frase que gostaria de ter em seu epitáfio”
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“Wer als reicher Mann stirbt, stirbt schändlich." - The Gospel of Wealth, S. 664.”
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“A medida que envejezco, presto menos atención a lo que dicen los hombres. Me limito a ver lo que hacen». [As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do].”
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“The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there and everywhere. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is all wrong. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.”
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“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve, achieve!”
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“Here lies a man who knew how to enlist in his service better men than himself.”
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“To be popular is easy; to be right when right is unpopular, is noble... I repudiate with scorn the immoral doctrine, 'Our country, right or wrong.”
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“Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.”
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“L'uomo che ha denaro durante un panico è il cittadino saggio e stimabile.”
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“Pense em si como um portal de sucesso sem paralelo. Uma vida inteira, gloriosa, se abre à sua frente. Consiga!”
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“Il primo prende l'ostrica, il secondo la conchiglia.”
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“(en) The result of my own study of the question, What is the best gift which can be given to a community? is that a free library occupies the first place, provided the community will accept and maintain it as a public institution, as much a part of the city property as its public schools, and, indeed, an adjunct to these.”
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“El hombre que muere rico, muere desgraciado». [The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced].”
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“Aqui jaz um homem que era capaz de atrair pessoas melhores que ele próprio para trabalhar.”
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“(Original engl.: "The man who dies [thus] rich dies disgraced.")”
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And his wife Louise continued to live there until her death in 1946
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“El capitalismo convierte los lujos en necesidades».[ Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities].”
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“Morgan si compra i soci, io me li allevo.”
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1917· 2 entries
With Carnegie still alive
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At the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts
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1914· 2 entries
On the shores of Lake Constance in southern Germany
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On the eve of the First World War, Carnegie founded the Church Peace Union (CPU), a group of leaders in religion, academia, and politics
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1913· 2 entries
To endow the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, a grant-making foundation
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At the dedication of the Peace Palace in The Hague, Carnegie predicted that the end of the war was as certain to come, and come soon, as day follows night
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1911· 3 entries
Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100-inch (2
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"to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding" and continue his program of giving
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Career landmark: rector (1911–1914).
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1910· 3 entries
Awarded Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1910).
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Received the Freedom of the City of Belfast and was made as well Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honour by the French government
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Was regarded as a milestone on the road to the ultimate goal of abolition of war
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1907· 1 entry
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers elected him an honorary member
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1904· 1 entry
Founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada (a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany) fo
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1903· 2 entries
And especially for becoming the mediator who negotiated an end to the war between Russia and Japan in 1907–1908
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For the erection of the Peace Palace at The Hague; and he donated $150,000 for a Pan-American Palace in Washington as a home for the International Bureau of American Republics
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1902· 1 entry
Was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society
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1901· 8 entries
And it was incorporated by royal charter on August 21, 1902
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And formed the United States Steel Corporation
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In Scotland, he gave $10 million to establish the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
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Carnegie also established large pension funds for his former employees at Homestead and, in 1905, for American college professors
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Carnegie was able to get fully involved in the peace cause, both financially and personally
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Carnegie and Roosevelt were in frequent contact
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Carnegie was 65 years of age and considering retirement
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For $303,450,000; it formed the basis of the U
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1900· 2 entries
During proceedings with the ex-chairman of Carnegie Steel, Henry Clay Frick, revealed how favorable the tariffs had been
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Carnegie gave $2 million to start the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) at Pittsburgh and the same amount in 1902 to create the Carnegie Institution at Washington, D
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1899· 2 entries
Awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership (1899).
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Andrew Carnegie was awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership
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1898· 2 entries
Carnegie tried to arrange independence for the Philippines
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Carnegie joined the American Anti-Imperialist League, in opposition to the U
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1897· 2 entries
In 1897, the couple had their only child, Margaret, whom they named after Carnegie's mother.
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The couple had their only child, Margaret, whom they named after Carnegie's mother
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1892· 1 entry
With the launching of the Carnegie Steel Company
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1889· 4 entries
Resulting in twenty million tons of water sweeping down the valley as the Johnstown Flood
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“Wealth," in: North American Review, June 1889 vol. 148, issue 391, p 653-664.”
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Carnegie published "Wealth" in the June issue of the North American Review
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“The Best Fields for Philanthropy," in: North American Review, December 1889 vol. 149, issue 397”
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1886· 3 entries
Carnegie's younger brother Thomas died at age 43
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The 51-year-old Carnegie married Louise Whitfield, who was 21 years his junior
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Carnegie wrote his most radical work to date, entitled Triumphant Democracy
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1885· 1 entry
Gave $500,000 to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a public library; in 1886, he gave $250,000 to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, for a music hall and library; and he gave $250,000 to Edinburgh, Scotland, for a free library
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1884· 3 entries
“Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often his additions tend not to happiness but to misery!”
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Gave $50,000 to Bellevue Hospital Medical College (now part of New York University Medical Center) to create a histological laboratory, now called the Carnegie Laboratory
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“Carnegie, Andrew (1884). Round the World. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Retrieved on January 2, 2018.”
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1883· 1 entry
Carnegie bought the rival Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a 425-mile-long (684 km) railway, and a line of lake steamships
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1881· 1 entry
Carnegie took his family, including his 70-year-old mother, on a trip to the United Kingdom
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1864· 1 entry
Carnegie was one of the early investors in the Columbia Oil Company in Venango County, Pennsylvania
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1859· 1 entry
Carnegie officially became superintendent of the Western Division
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1855· 1 entry
Scott made it possible for Carnegie to invest $500 in the Adams Express Company, which contracted with the Pennsylvania to carry its messengers
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1853· 1 entry
When Carnegie was around 18 years old, Thomas A
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1849· 1 entry
Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in the Pittsburgh Office of the Ohio Telegraph Company, following the recommendation of his uncle
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1848· 1 entry
Was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory
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1836· 1 entry
The family moved to a larger house in Edgar Street (opposite Reid's Park), following the demand for more heavy damask, from which his father benefited
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1835· 1 entry
Born 1835-11-25.
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