Best 5 quotes of David Nasaw on MyQuotes

David Nasaw

  • By Anonym
    David Nasaw

    Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.

  • By Anonym
    David Nasaw

    Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.

  • By Anonym
    David Nasaw

    Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.

  • By Anonym
    David Nasaw

    He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.

  • By Anonym
    David Nasaw

    To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.