Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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 THE THISTLE “It is nearly forty years since I first met Andrew Carnegie, my greatest friend, indeed my father. As a hoy I met him while lie was sojourning in the Allegheny Mountains. Even in those early days, such was his personality as to inspire one to better effort in life and to an appreciation of the finer things in the world, not so much by his words, but just by the influence of his strong personality. When I look back at my early life I now feel the influence his personality had upon me continually. Mr. Carnegie is a great example of what a strong personality will do in the world. “I attribute the steelmaster’s success to his faculty of enlisting in his service, men of ability, men who were schooled in the arts and crafts with which Mr. Carnegie himself was not extraordinarily familiar, but which were essential in the expansion of the steel industry. “It is quite a thing to enlist such aid, but a much different thing to get the best efforts from such men, and that faculty Mr. Carnegie possessed. Ilis great results were always obtained under a spirit of approval and never one of criticism. Mr. Carnegie displayed this philosophy of life early in his career, and he |x ssessed this trait more strongly than any man I ever knew. “Mr. Carnegie could have nothing better said of him than that he was truly democratic. We are all striving for that. The true aristocrat of today is not the man of birth or wealth, but he is the man who has done something for humanity. He was a true example of democracy, and that which we strive for today Mr. Carnegie practiced all his life. He numbered among his friends not only the rich and powerful, but the workingman. Charles M. Schwab. 19 20

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