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Fulcrum
01-22-2014, 07:54 PM
https://ia600301.us.archive.org/1/items/business00carn/business00carn_djvu.txt

Written by Andrew Carnegie about 100 years ago on being in business for one's self. I'm amazed at how many of his points seem to stand the "test of time".

Edit: Some of the text is just symbols, but I think that's just from the program used to pull straight text from the scanned documents.

vangogh
01-23-2014, 12:09 AM
Thanks for the link Brad. I've only skimmed it so far. I'll read it in full when I have more time. I see what you mean about many of his points standing the test of time, though I guess they would given how successful he was. For example early on in the presentation he said


There is no fortune to come from salary, however high,

As true today as it was then. And later this


There are
always a few in business who stand near the top, but there are always an infinitely greater number at or near the bottom. And should you fail to ascend, the fault is not in your stars, but in yourselves.

It looks like this was copied and pasted from something like Word into a text file and that's where the symbols came from. I may copy and paste it somewhere and see if I can clean it up before reading to make it easier to read. It's not too hard as is though.

tallen
01-23-2014, 05:01 AM
FWIW, I found a scan of the original here: Business by Andrew Carnegie (http://www.slideshare.net/TTC_Media/business-by-andrew-carnegie)

carloborja
01-27-2014, 10:54 PM
Thank you @tallen and @Fulcrum.

Great share! Very useful.

KristineS
01-28-2014, 12:53 PM
Interesting. I skimmed it, but I think I will go back and read it entirely. Had to laugh about the business of the college student being to play football. Even 100 years ago they were saying that.