Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs. Ernest Thompson Seton
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As a parent and
As a parent and a citizen, I’ll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs’s example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Eric Alterman
One, Andrew Carnegie said,
One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’ Eli Broad
Pianists of extraordinary talent,
Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in … Read more
What we did [shooting
What we did [shooting Fences] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in. Denzel Washington
I wish I lived
I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say ‘Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.’ Demetri Martin
My grandfather, along with
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. David Rockefeller
Buffett, when he gave
Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, The man who dies rich dies disgraced, in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man. David Nasaw
He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted
He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries. David Nasaw
Carnegie believed in the
Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could. David Nasaw