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…including Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. The book quotes Carnegie, years later:

“A messenger boy in those days had many pleasures… He met very many kind men to whom he looked up with respect; they spoke a pleasant word and complimented him on his promptness, perhaps asking him to deliver a message on the way back to the office. I do not know a situation in which a boy is more apt to attract attention, which is all a really clever boy requires in order to rise.”