Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn’t go into… - Andrew Carnegie

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Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn’t go into the mine looking for dirt — one goes in looking for the gold.

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About Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company, which later became U.S. Steel.

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Alternative Names: Endriu Karnegi A. Carnegie Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
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Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious — being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so — still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.

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