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"It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library."
"The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate."
"The sound rule in business is that you may give money freely when you have a surplus, but your name never-neither as endorser nor as member of a corporation with individual liability"
"A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle."
"A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others."
"Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit."
"He that cannot reason is a fool."
"Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation."
"Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise."
"Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it."
"That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject."
"To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one."
"Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity."
"The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train."
"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."
"The morality of compromise sounds contradictory."
"When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party."
"Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not."
"The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour."
"Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own."