"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.“

-Andrew Carnegie

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"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."

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"The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised."

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