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安德鲁·卡内基：安德鲁·卡内基自传·补录 141
安德鲁·卡内基《安德鲁·卡内基自传》· Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · 领导
When in Washington I had not met General Grant, because he was in the West up to the time of my leaving, but on a journey to and from Washington he stopped at Pittsburgh to make the necessary arrangements for his removal to the East. I met him on the line upon both occasions and took him to dine with me in Pittsburgh. There were no dining-cars then. He was the most ordinary-looking man of high position I had ever met, and the last that one would select at first glance as a remarkable man. I remember that Secretary of War Stanton said that when he visited the armies in the West, General Grant and his staff entered his car; he looked at them, one after the other, as they entered and seeing General Grant, said to himself, "Well, I do not know which is General Grant, but there is one that cannot be." Yet this was he. [Reading this years after it was written, I laugh. It is pretty hard on the General, for I have been taken for him more than once.]
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定位：Additional excerpt 141 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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卡内基在火车上结识格兰特将军，发现他外表普通，毫无架子，完全不像人们想象中的伟人。但正是这种朴实无华，让他更显真实。这告诉我们，真正的领导者往往不靠外表或张扬来证明自己，而是以谦逊和务实赢得尊重。在评价他人时，不要被第一印象迷惑，要看到内在品质和能力。
上下文
卡内基自传中回忆与格兰特将军的初次见面，描述其平凡外表。
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你是否曾因外表而低估他人？如何更全面地评估一个人的能力？
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