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extract from "10 Laws of Leadership" by Dr Bill Newman
At one time, Andrew Carnegie was the wealthiest man in America. He came to America from his native Scotland when he was a small boy, did a variety of odd jobs and eventually ended up as the largest steel manufacturer in the United States. At one time he had forty - three millionaires working for him. In those days, a millionaire was a rare person, conservatively speaking a million dollars in his day would be equivalent to at least twenty million dollars today.
A reporter asked Carnegie how he had hired forty - three millionaires. Carnegie responded that those men had not been millionaires when they started working for him, but had become millionaires as a result.
The reporter's next question was: "How did you develop these men to become so valuable to you that you have paid them this much money?"
Carnegie replied that "Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be removed to get an ounce of gold, but one doesn't go into the mine looking for dirt - one goes in looking for the gold."
Attitude and success are inseperable. One invariably follows the other.
If you concentrate on the negative "dirt" in life - that's all you'll get, non-success.
Stay focused on the positive "Gold" and success will be your reward.
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