Andrew Carnegie’s 45 causes of failure
- Habit of drifting through life without a definite major purpose
- Unfavorable physical heredity at birth
- Habit of meddlesome curiosity into other people’s affairs
- Inadequate preparation for the work in which one engages
- Lack of self-discipline
- Indifference towards opportunities for self-advancement
- Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity
- Ill health (due to wrong thinking, improper diet and exercise)
- Unfavorable environmental influences (esp during childhood)
- Lack of persistence in carrying through a finish what one starts
- Habit of maintaining a negative mental attitude
- Lack of control of emotions
- The desire for something for nothing
- indecision and indefiniteness
- Fear of poverty, criticism, ill health, loss of love, old age, loss of liberty, death
- Wrong selection for mate in marriage
- Over caution in business and occupational relationships
- Excess tendency towards chance
- Wrong choice of associates in business or occupational work
- Wrong choice of a vocation or total neglect to make a choice
- Lack of concentration of effort leading to dissipation of time and energy
- Habit of indiscriminate spending
- Failure to budget and use time properly
- Lack of control of enthusiasm
- Intolerance, close-mindedness and prejudice
- Failure to cooperate with others in a spirit of harmony
- Craving for power or wealth not earned or based on merit
- Lack of a spirit of loyalty where loyalty is due
- Egotism and vanity not under control
- Exaggerated selfishness
- The habit of creating plans without basing them on known facts
- Lack of vision and imagination
- Failure to make mastermind alliance
- Failure to recognize the existence of and adapting to the power of infinite intelligence
- Profanity of speech (unclean and undisciplined mind)
- Speaking before thinking. Talking too much.
- Covetousness, revenge, and greed
- A habit of procrastination
- Speaking slanderously of other people
- Ignorance of the power of thought & lack of knowledge on the operation of the mind
- Lack of personal initiative
- Lack of self-reliance
- Lack of the qualities of a pleasing personality
- Lack of faith in oneself, fellow men and God
- Failure to develop the power of will through voluntary controlled habits of thought
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