Andrew Carnegie Quotes
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Carnegie, Andrew. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920, p. 154.
In other words, don’t micromanage your agents.
Commenting on her husband, Steve Jobs, not signing the the Giving Pledge, the organization started by Warren E. Buffett and Bill Gates to persuade the country’s richest families to vow to give away at least half of their fortunes.
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away ~$350 million (roughly $5.2 billion in 2019) to many charities, foundations, and universities – almost 90 percent of his fortune. His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society and stimulated a wave of philanthropy.