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安德鲁·卡内基：安德鲁·卡内基自传·补录 289
安德鲁·卡内基《安德鲁·卡内基自传》· Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · 领导
I said we would risk that. The railway company could not proceed to that extremity. And as a matter of fact we ran for some time without paying the freight bills. It was simply impossible for the manufacturers of Pittsburgh to pay their accruing liabilities when their customers stopped payment. The banks were forced to renew maturing paper. They behaved splendidly to us, as they always have done, and we steered safely through. But in a critical period like this there was one thought uppermost with me, to gather more capital and keep it in our business so that come what would we should never again be called upon to endure such nights and days of racking anxiety.
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卡内基说，他们决定冒这个险，因为铁路公司不可能把事情做绝。事实上，他们有一段时间没付运费账单。当时匹兹堡的制造商在客户停止付款时，根本无力支付到期债务，银行被迫续贷。银行对他们很好，他们也安全度过。但在这样的危机时刻，他脑子里最要紧的念头是：多筹集资本，留在企业里，这样无论发生什么，都不必再经历那种日夜煎熬的焦虑。
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出自安德鲁·卡内基的自传，回忆19世纪70年代经济危机中经营钢铁业的经历。
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