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Quotation from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie
“I have made millions since, but none of those millions gave me such happiness as my first week's earnings.”
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Chapter III (Project Gutenberg #17976 (Constable, 1920))
On his first wages as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory, one dollar and twenty cents a week.
Citation: "I have made millions since, but none of those millions gave me such happiness as my first week's earnings." — Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Chapter III (Project Gutenberg #17976 (Constable, 1920)). (id autobiography-of-andrew-carnegie-q1)
Virtues: Industry
Portrait: Andrew Carnegie, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, 1913-crop, Theodore C. Marceau, Public domain.
