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Originally Posted by Daffy Duck  |
Carnegie is a fascinating case study, because he reminds all of us that while the LOA can be used for creating wealth, wealth is certainly not the only thing that the LOA can create.
We know him now only from Wikipedia entries etc etc. But even from that, we can see that that he created much more than just money and a business empire for himself.
He was interested in world peace; helping the poor; building libraries; fostering better relations between the UK and the US; improving political systems; in writing; and in promoting literature.
Taken from Carnegie's private memos to himself (we'd call it a "blog entry" these days):
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Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen, and many so-called poor men, who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reach.
It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher than itself. Exalted beyond this, as it sometimes is, it remains Caliban still and still plays the beast.
My aspirations take a higher flight. Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light. I hold this the noblest possible use of wealth.
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