Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-02-14
HOW He GOT RICH.
Carnegie Tells How He Made His
Millions.
'he Greatest Advantage Tor Success is in Beino
Born Poor.

flfty years ago. n young Scotch lad
| was working as a "bobbin boy'' i'm a
| cotton factory in this country. He was
| earning somewhat less than a dollar
ana quarter week. That boy was
/ Andrew Carnegie. who is now one or
the richest men in the world At G.
! he has retired from business with n
fortune that is estimated at 800. coo. 600.
| ar an annual income of 81. O00 600 Mr..
/ carnegie ppHdered over the problem
how best to distribute this huge sum
during his lifetime 50 as Ia produce
! 'h- maximum amount Of good and the
| minimum of evil. says w. T. Stead.
| How to make millions. not how to
sperd them. is the pressing problem
with the majority of men. The man
VINO has made millions can best ex-
plain how millions are made. and Mr..
| Carnegie has kindly consented to tell.
If man has an ambition to make.
millions. Mr. Carnegie" he was asked
what are the gifts with which n fairy
! godmother should endow him at his
BIRTH"
The greatest of all advantages with
which he can begin life is that of be
4
| make millions must not be born with a
| silver spoon in his mouth. He must
/ feel that it is sink or swim with him
| He must start in his life career with
no bladders. no life preservers. no sup
port. If in addition TO being poor him
self he has Witnessed his parents
struggle with adversely and resolves to
! drive the wolf from the door of the
| family he has the strongest of all in
| ceatives which lead 10 success No
ambitions Of merely personal nature
can be compared with this RESPONSE
billty thrown upon young poo: man.
that is the thing 10 bring out what is
! in him. Such is the raw material out
Of which great captains of industry are
made.
Il think II young man has ambi-
ton tie has 4! necessary qualities be
/ hind it. The sire u succeed develops
| them. The setrvt Of success chiefly
! lies in the determination to succeed
/ and the resolve that every impulse.
every knockdoan. he receives in the
battle will only i rye him the more.
He should make his employers in
| tereSt his own. He should take per
/ sonal pride in the concern with which
1 he is connected ~ should consider
/ the property as his own already and
cxpend all his efio-,s and energy upon
/ H. This attracts HE attention Of his
! employers. and the rot is easy.
/ You can find 4 hundred men who
will make good bril- 1der generals;
| fen. perhans. who ,.n command Il
corps. and only one who can combine all
| TIE forces and WELD them as one solid
mass. The same analogy holds good
/ in business. The phrenologists have
| discovered no bump of human nature.
| though they should have done so. The
most delicate and the most essential
piece OF mechanism that 4 man has u
dcal with il the human machine Tn
I4ss II man knows how to manage those
above him as we'll as those below him
he viii never achieve supreme success.
/ knowledge of human nature is the
! chief element In the composition Of thu
! sn..r..eef,I husiness man. The test OF
/ any mans ability is not what he does
| himself. but what he can get others to
40 in cooperation with him.
Then YOU believe in 4 close connec-
! +ion between emnloycr ANA employod"'
| ,. ,,. ,o.o Il /, cola NJ,
| y" Hiittei nv"
| Carnegie, enphauCaiiN' IL cannot w
| close euough. A successful business
| 60. ,,,,l Ia ILL., q hand IF hrotbars
| HrHl Shoulo W i'h' Il y" i'' 80 t
/ or course they cannot " lili9 "i'''7
rc1I cooperation exists. The head
| ~ L ,.;,b ~ otbcre anl tho
| must SilaIt VIII IS
! others with him. 50 that an are Woih-
! ing for the common interest"
..,rt4 - ,.bv vou oava yolr en-
| "ht - wy -. - ,,e;
| plOyceS pfactitdl lhteiN9' AZ
| ness"
| " .bo+ is ona reoson The other
| - ma = - -, ,,,ocr,a,
| was that ny DONG ;" business Is
| 4 pleasure. we We're as one, away
united. | would not give much 1T AZ
man " ~ "" ~ ,.a1,,ah1a man
| working for others. inc Ndludpie man
is he who has proper spirit ana deter-
| -. - 10 ,,,oc+ar himself equal in
| ihIi!eo ~ "e
rank to any one ,
DO YOU think, Mr.. Carnegie, that
| .'.,rr1,, az a eraa- husinesS con-
the ..ioo, aoouaint-
Germ shOuld nave Pc = 1;
ance with all the details or tne DuSl-
| ao-so,,
iieSo' ,o-
We'll ! am not one VINO coulo say 'I'''
/ ,.o,,., an, ,otbino of a scientific or n
pFN'"' " 3,oY+avt Is
mechanicdt man. W MAJ - - ~ i,ba clever
that the manager Snouiu MI" bbanicians
men VINO are sclehtI9ts on ~. n,el,s oI,ar FOR
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