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Andrew Carnegie:Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Excerpt 59

Andrew Carnegie《Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie》· Chapter IX · Leadership

Mr. Garrett promptly replied that when the interests of his company were at stake it was the best always that won. His engineers had reported that our plans were the best and that Scott and Thomson would see that he had only one rule--the interests of his company. Although he very well knew that I was a Pennsylvania Railroad man, yet he felt it his duty to award us the work.

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