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Not precisely accurate: he had a three-part life plan: The "Andrew Carnegie Dictum" was: - To spend the first third of one's life getting all the education on
by keiferski 3y ago
Not precisely accurate: he had a three-part life plan:
The "Andrew Carnegie Dictum" was:
- To spend the first third of one's life getting all the education one can.
- To spend the next third making all the money one can.
- To spend the last third giving it all away for worthwhile causes.
- ricardo81 3y agoAh, I stand corrected. Perhaps the same modus operandi all the same. That extra education third explains away why he donated so much towards libraries in the US and Scotland.
- oh_sigh 3y agoWas that actually his life plan from the beginning, or was that a post hoc rationalization of his life?
- keiferski 3y agoWell he grew up in poverty so I don’t think it was from the beginning. I do think that he became interested in philanthropy from his thirties onward and I believe he made his first library donation at at 44, but didn’t retire and commit himself to philanthropy full-time until his sixties.