MR CARNEGIE'S WISDOM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 172, 19 January 1912, Page 8

MR CARNEGIE'S WISDOM.

| Mr. Andrew Carnegie celebrated' on , November 25 his 76th birthday, and kept j "open house" all day in his beautiful 1 home on East ftlat street, New York, where dozens of friends went to coni gratulate him. Mr. Carnegie was in the [best of spirits, and received with great i friendliness a deputation of newspaper reporters who called upon him. The re- ' tired ironmaster expounded a few of the rules he has observedi throughout his life, and gave the reporters much good advice. He informed them that if they wished to "get on in the world" they should neither drink nor smoke, and, above all things, they must live within their income. "Merely doing your duty," said Mr. Carnegie, "is not sufficient; you must work with your head, and in addition to obeying orders work out projects of your own. If you know you are right your employer's objections should not hinder you, for you may know your business ..better than he does. He is sure ■to come to your way of thinking when you have proved that you are right." One pf the journalists asked him what poor employee had of becoming a partner. Mr. Carnegie replied: "Some day the employer may be ill, and the employee sent to the house on business, While there he may meet the wife and daughter; There is his chance, for no man Should be prejudiced against a girl because she is rich. A poor man 'can make a rich man's daughter liappieß sometimes than a millionaire can." Asked who the world's 20 greatest men were, Mr. Carnegie said that he thought the 20 men to whom the world was most indebted were Shakespeare, Milton, Je*. Her, Nejilson, Lincoln, Gutenberg, Edison, Siemens, Columbus, Bessemer, Bell, Arkwright, Franklin, Murdoch, Hargreaves, Kaye, Stephensin, Symington, and Burns. "These men l were none of them financial geniuses, but the making of money is one of the most mediocre forms of genius It is far easier to make it than to spend it wisely. I ■ am getting rid of mine as fast m I can."