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Andrew Carnegie – amerykański przemysłowiec szkockiego pochodzenia, jeden z najbogatszych ludzi swoich czasów na świecie. Swojego bogactwa użył do stworzenia wielu instytucji o istotnym znaczeniu dla kultury i nauki. Jego majątek w chwili śmierci ocenia się na 298,3 mld dolarów. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Listopad 1835 – 11. Sierpień 1919
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Andrew Carnegie słynne cytaty

„Nawet największa umiejętność przynosi niewielką korzyść, jeśli nie towarzyszy jej honor.”

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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. (ang.) <br class="br">Źródło: The Empire of Business http://books.google.pl/books?id=VwpW41Y-y8AC, Cosimo, Inc., 2007, s. 200.

„Nie wierzę w Boga. Mój Bóg to patriotyzm. Naucz człowieka być dobrym obywatelem, a rozwiążesz problem życia.”

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I don’t believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. (ang.)

„Pieniądze nie dają szczęścia, ale mogę za nie kupić każdy wieżowiec w Nowym Jorku.”

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Money can’t buy happiness but it bought me every skyscrapper in New York. (ang.)

„Nie ma interesu w Ameryce, który nie przyniósłby godziwego zysku, jeśli poświęci mu się nieustającą całkowitą uwagę oraz kapitał zdolnych i pracowitych ludzi.”

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„Pilnuj kosztów, zyski zatroszczą się same o siebie.”

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Watch the costs, and the profits will take care of themselves. (ang.)
Źródło: Paul Dunn, Ronald J. Baker, The Firm of the Future. A Guide for Accountants, Lawyers, and Other Professional Services, John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

„Im bardziej się starzeję, tym mniejszą uwagę przywiązuje do tego, co mówią ludzie. Po prostu patrzę, co robią.”

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. (ang.)

„Człowiek, który umiera bogaty, umiera w niesławie.”

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The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. (ang.) <br class="br">Źródło: The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth http://books.google.pl/books?id=eYr5HPIvvZQC&amp;dq, Digireads.com Publishing, 2009, s. 191.

Andrew Carnegie: Cytaty po angielsku

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

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“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”

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“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”

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“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”

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“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”

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“A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

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“It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.”

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“Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.”

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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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Źródło: Wealth, 1889, p. 653

“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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Źródło: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, Chapter III

“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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Źródło: Round the World, 1884, p. 353 General Conclusions.

“No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man be­hind a king when I find him.”

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Źródło: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, Chapter XXIX

“While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of the few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.”

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Źródło: Wealth, 1889, p. 655

“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”

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Źródło: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, Chapter XVI

“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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Źródło: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, Chapter VII

“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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Źródło: Wealth, 1889, p. 662

“Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.”

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Quoted in: George J. Borjas (2001) Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy. p. 132

“Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves.”

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/filmmore/transcript/

“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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Źródło: Wealth, 1889, p. 664