Vision Equals Greatness

In a 1985 monthly publication of Insight, there is an

article about Andrew Carnegie, the great steel maker, who

was asked by a reporter, “How is it possible to have 43

millionaires working for you at the same time?”

Mr. Carnegie answered, “They weren’t millionaires

when they started working for me.” The reporter asked,

“Well, what happened?” Mr. Carnegie replied, “We believe

in rewarding excellence in performance, and these men have

developed themselves to the degree that they have become

millionaires.”

The reporter asked, “How do you develop so many

people?”

Andrew Carnegie replied this way: “I develop men

exactly the same way you mine gold. In order to get an

ounce of gold, you move tons and tons of dirt. But you don’t

go looking for the dirt; you go looking for the gold.”

When interviewed by Success Magazine in 1898

Thomas Edison was asked, “What’s the first requisite for

success?” And Edison answered this way: “The ability to

apply your physical and mental energies to one problem

incessantly without growing weary. You do something all

day long, don’t you? Everyone does. If you get up at 7 A.M.

and go to bed at 11 P.M., you have put in 16 good hours,

and it is certain with most men that they have been doing

something all the time. The only trouble is that they do it

about a great many things and I do it about one. If they took

the time in question and applied it in one direction, to one

object they would succeed.”

C-2012  J. Carinci