Quotes by Andrew Carnegie

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About Andrew Carnegie

Portrait of Andrew Carnegie
Theodore C. Marceau · Public domain

American industrialist and philanthropist · 1835 – 1919

Andrew Carnegie arrived in America from Scotland at thirteen and worked in a cotton mill; by sixty-five he had built the largest steel business in the world and sold it for a fortune. He then spent most of that fortune deliberately, funding some two and a half thousand public libraries and arguing in The Gospel of Wealth that dying rich was a disgrace. His maxims on work, money and giving are those of a man who was ruthless in acquiring both and unsentimental about what they were for.

Known for: The Gospel of Wealth

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