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Carnegie   /kˈɑrnəgi/  /kˌɑrnˈeɪgi/   Listen
Carnegie

noun
1.
United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955).  Synonym: Dale Carnegie.
2.
United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919).  Synonym: Andrew Carnegie.



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"Carnegie" Quotes from Famous Books



... abroad, at once saw or feared that occupation would lead to annexation. Carl Schurz, as early as the 9th of May, wrote McKinley expressing the hope that "we remain true to our promise that this is a war of deliverance and not one of greedy ambition, conquest, self-aggrandizement." In August, Andrew Carnegie wrote in "The North American Review" an article on "Distant Possessions—The Parting ...
— The Path of Empire - A Chronicle of the United States as a World Power, Volume - 46 in The Chronicles of America Series • Carl Russell Fish

... college life came to an end, and Montrose married Magdalen Carnegie, whose father was later created earl of Southesk. We do not know very much about his wife, and most likely she was not very interesting, but the young couple remained at lord Carnegie's house of Kinnaird for some years, till in ...
— The Red Book of Heroes • Leonora Blanche Lang

... Faith's acquaintance, whose name was Carnegie, came towards the former group and bashfully bade her a good-morning which she brightly returned, hastening to present him to her sister and friends. Soon they were all in animated chat, and the young attaches in Mrs. Campbell's vicinity ...
— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... the large-size Carnegie Medal for Heroism is waiting for the Caller who has the immortal Rind to tell a poetical Pest that his output is Punk, the Author found himself smeared with Compliments after each of ...
— Ade's Fables • George Ade

... off all their products for equal pay, then compel operators by piling on taxes to maintain high prices to consumers "till other companies got well on their feet"—and a combination was effected. If Rockefeller, Hanna, Carnegie, et id genes omnes tried any of their old tricks "we might get after them"—just as we HAVE long been doing. These plutocrats are so afraid of our politicians that there is danger of their dying of neuropathy. If the coal, iron ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann


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