Andrew Carnegie was an American industrialist who lived from 1835 to 1919. The firm he created, Carnegie Steel, was the predecessor of today’s United States Steel Corporation. When he sold Carnegie Steel to J.P. Morgan in 1900 for $480 million, Andrew Carnegie became the richest man in the world. His fortune at that time in inflation adjusted dollars exceeded that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet today.
Carnegie is known as one of the “robber barons” of the U.S. industrial era because of the ruthless tactics he used and because he held costs down by forcing his employees to work very long hours for low wages. His reputation as a businessman was scarred permanently during the Homestead Strike of 1892 when he threw his support behind his plant manager who had hired “Pinkerton thugs” to squelch the strike. There was an altercation between the Pinkerton men and the strikers, and many strikers were killed.
Interestingly, at age 33 (24 years before the Homestead strike) Carnegie wrote a letter to himself. In it he said,
“To continue much longer overwhelmed by business cares and with most of my thoughts wholly upon the way to make more money in the shortest time, must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery. I will resign business at thirty-five, but during the ensuing two years I wish to spend the afternoons in receiving instruction and in reading systematically.”
Carnegie didn’t end his business career at age 35. Instead, he poured all of his time, talent, energy, and resources into it, and as I said, he ended up becoming the richest man in the world. Also, that which he feared came upon him. His actions during the Homestead Strike degraded his reputation beyond recovery.
In the later years of his life, Carnegie gave away almost all of his wealth to build and stock public libraries many of which still carry his name today. The Carnegie Foundation that he created is active even now, and it supports a myriad of philanthropic causes around the world. I don’t know if Carnegie ever came to know God. I hope he did, but whether he did or not, the wealth he spent his life to build ended up under the control of other people whose agendas are very different than the one he followed.
In the book of Proverbs, King Solomon made this observation: “…the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.” (Proverbs 13: 22) In the end, God always wins. The wealth you create will eventually be used to advance His agenda, whether you like it or not. No matter how hard you try, you can’t prevent God from eventually gaining access to and control of your fortune. Why fight Him? Accept God’s sovereignty as a fact; devote your time, talent, energy, and resources to Him; and enjoy the rewards of being on the winning team.
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Jeremiah 41: 15-16
But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the sons of Ammon. Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him took from Mizpah all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, that is, the men who were soldiers, the women, the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.
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- Gingrich to Obama: ‘Respect our religion,’ not ‘every other religion’
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The Jerusalem Post:
- IDF Drills Mobilization under Missile Fire
- ‘Iran will be able to make nuclear bomb within a year’
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- Russian EU envoy: No chance for Syria resolution
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Haaretz:
- Top Likud minister: Peace will not come by uprooting Jews from their homes
- Syrian troops battle defectors near Damascus in fresh assault
- UN chief to Netanyahu: Israel must refrain from settlement construction
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- Israel ranked second most educated country in the world, study shows
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Israel Hayom:
- Israel warns against Syrian WMD transfer to Hezbollah
- Between Israeli, US intelligence on Iran, a question of intentions
- Mossad, CIA held talks on Iran, Petraeus reveals
- Israel under escalating cyberattack
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Business:
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World:
- Clinton Accuses Assad of Setting Syrian Minorities Against Each Other
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United States:
- CBO: Obama’s Policies to Increase National Debt 47 Percent to $21.7 Trillion by 2022
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- Gingrich Knows it’s Over
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- Dick Morris: How Mitt suckered Newt
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- Romney claims decisive victory
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- Man in Afghan uniform kills NATO service member
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- Iranian source calls IAEA talks positive
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- Minister: Sanctions have not affected energy investment
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If You Voted for Obama in 2008 to Prove You’re Not a Racist, You Need to Vote for Someone Else in 2012 to Prove You’re Not an Idiot explains why voters in the United States need to elect someone besides Barack Obama to lead them. Whoever is elected President of the United States in 2012 will have to contend with the monumental problems that Obama’s misguided policies have caused both at home and abroad. One thing is certain, though. It should not be Barack Obama. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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- Romney Rising
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- Votes per $1,000 Spent in Florida
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- Libya bitten, Syria shy
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- Romney scores big Florida victory
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- Villages where Taliban rule
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- Assange case before Supreme Court
- Impasse at UN Syria crisis debate
- Chinese workers in Egypt released
- Deadly clashes over Senegal poll
- Nuclear talks in Iran ‘good’ – UN
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- Pakistan-controlled Taliban to rule Afghanistan – secret report
- ‘EU crisis entering chronic phase’
- US foreign policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Collapse of the West’s human rights paradise
- Calls to stop Syria ‘killing machine’ at UN as Russia, China slam sanctions
- Israel’s call for loyalty alienates American Jews
- IAEA fails to visit Iran nuclear sites, but talks ‘constructive’
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- 25 Chinese workers held by Egyptian locals freed
- Florida win gives Romney crucial boost
- Pakistani Foreign Minister arrives in Afghanistan
- AL calls for “rapid, decisive action” from UNSC on Syria
- China’s PMI rises to 50.5 pct in Jan.
- 13 killed in U.S. drone strike in NW Pakistan
- U.S. gov’t to run $1.1 trillion deficit in FY 2012
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- Turkey welcomes appeal of French “genocide” bill
- Freighter ship sinks off Turkey’s Black Sea coast
- Study finds U.S. racial segregation at lowest level in a century
- Africa economic integration: a promising cause with challenges
- World Bank cautions about volatile food prices
- Iranian official dismisses fears of forex reserves shortage
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- Twelve Ways Obama Could Lose
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- Florida’s Results Are the Best That Money Can Buy
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- The ‘Turkish Model’ of Democracy: Neither Moderate nor Democratic
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- What to do when you’ve been dissed
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- Many die in European cold spell
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Yahweh to Jeremiah—Jeremiah 16: 21
“Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.”
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- Don’t Count Out Santorum in the Coming Conservative Primary
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- America’s Lost Decade Continues
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- Occupiers Beg Oaklanders for “Bail Money” After Violent Riots
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.
God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.”
Exodus 3: 15
