How to win Fortune E-Book

Andrew Carnegie

• Herausgeber: FV Éditions
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

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Do not hesitate to engage in any legitimate business, for there is no business in America, I do not care what, which will not yield a fair profit if it receive the unremitting, exclusive attention, and all the capital of capable, industrious men. Every business will have its seasons of depression — years during which manufacturers and merchants are severely tried — but every legitimate business producing or dealing in an article which man requires is bound in time to be fairly profitable, if properly conducted. And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought and capital upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it; to adopt every improvement; to have the best machinery, and know the most about it.  — Carnegie.

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Andrew Carnegie

How to Win Fortune

HAS THE YOUNG MAN NOW A CHANCE?

WHERE IS THE COLLEGE-MADE MAN?

ARE CORPORATIONS TO DISAPPEAR?

DANGERS TO YOUNG MEN.

THE GOSPEL

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Andrew Carnegie

Do not hesitate to engage in any legitimate business, for there is no business in America, I do not care what, which will not yield a fair profit if it receive the unremitting, exclusive attention, and all the capital of capable, industrious men.

Every business will have its seasons of depression — years during which manufacturers and merchants are severely tried — but every legitimate business producing or dealing in an article which man requires is bound in time to be fairly profitable, if properly conducted.

And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought and capital upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it; to adopt every improvement; to have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

— Carnegie.

How to Win Fortune1

LABOUR is divided into two great armies— the agricultural and the industrial. In these diverse forces are in operation. In the former everything tends to a further distribution of land among the many ; in the latter everything tends to a concentration of business in the hands of the few. One of the two great fallacies upon which 'Progress and Poverty'— Mr. George's book - is founded, is that the land is getting more and more into the hands of the few. Now the only source from which Mr. George could obtain correct information upon this point is the census; and this tells us that in 1850 the average extent of farms in the United States was 203 acres; in 1860, 199 acres; in 1870, 153 acres, and that in 1880 it was still further reduced to 134 acres. The reason is obvious for this rapid distribution of the land. The farmer who cultivates a small farm by his own labour is able to drive out of the field the ambitious capitalist who attempts to farm on a large scale with the labour of others. In Great Britain nothing has been more significant than that the tillers of small farms have passed through the agricultural depression there far better than those who cultivated large farms. So in both countries we have proof that under the free play of equal laws land is becoming more and more divided among the masses of the people. In the whole range of social question no fact is more important than this, and nothing gives the thoughtful student greater satisfaction. The triumph of the small proprietor over the large proprietor insures the growth and maintenance of that element in society upon which civilization can most securely depend, for there is no force in a nation so conservative of what is good, so fair, so virtuous, as a race of men who till the soil they own. Happily for mankind experience proves that man cannot work more soil profitably than he can till himself with the aid of his own family.