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Quotes by Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist, 1835–1919
The son of a poor Scottish weaver who emigrated to Pennsylvania, Andrew Carnegie built the largest steel company in the world and sold it in 1901, becoming one of the richest men in history. He then gave away most of his fortune, funding some 2,500 public libraries, universities and Carnegie Hall, as his essay “Wealth” (1889) had preached.
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