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The Gospel of Wealth asserts that hard work and perseverance lead to wealth. Carnegie based his philosophy on the observation that the heirs of large fortunes frequently squandered them in riotous living rather than nurturing and growing them. Even bequeathing one's fortune to charity was no guarantee that it would be used wisely, due to the fact that there was no guarantee that a charitable ...
Forty Years of Carnegie Giving: A Summary of the Benefactions of Andrew Carnegie and of the Work of the Philanthropic Trusts Which He Created. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Livesay, Harold C. (1999). Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business, 2nd ed. ISBN 0321432878. Short biography by a scholar. Lorenzen, Michael. (1999).
Think and Grow Rich is a book written by Napoleon Hill and Rosa Lee Beeland released in 1937 and promoted as a personal development and self-improvement book. He claimed to be inspired by a suggestion from business magnate and later-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Some fortune cookie sayings will leave you with wise, inspiring words. Some will leave you laughing so much that you cry. The post 25 Fortune Cookie Sayings You Can’t Help but Laugh At appeared ...
I got a fortune from a cookie around 15 years ago that I typed onto my computer, printed out big, and taped to my wall.At some point, I must have put it away, because as I cleaned out the drawers ...
These include people such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Leland Stanford and John D. Rockefeller. The education division of the National Endowment for the Humanities has prepared a lesson plan for schools asking whether "robber baron" or "captain of industry" is the better terminology. The lesson states that it ...
Abraham Lincoln, [17] Michael Faraday, George Stephenson, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, P. T. Barnum, Booker T. Washington, Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Ford have also been described as self-made men. [18] [13]: 8 Both Carnegie and Lee Iacocca acknowledge that their own autobiographies were influenced by Franklin's.
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