If you’re reading this post it’s probably because you want to know how to get rich from nothing. We’ve all heard stories of individuals who rose from humble beginnings to achieve immense ...

What were Andrew Carnegie accomplishments? A major part of his influence lay in the establishment of several trusts or institutions that bear his name, such as the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the ...

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What made Carnegie so successful? The steel company Carnegie co-founded near Pittsburgh made its debut in the early 1870s. As he created a steel empire over the next several decades, he kept ...

When Andrew Carnegie was 33 years old, in 1868, he wrote himself a letter: "To continue much longer overwhelmed by business cares and with most of my thoughts wholly upon the way to make money in ...

Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie argued that a person ‘who dies thus rich dies disgraced’ When Mark Zuckerberg recently announced sweeping changes to his company Meta’s work practices in ...

At a time when America struggled -- often violently -- to sort out the competing claims of democracy and individual gain, Carnegie championed both. He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet ...

When I asked my mother for money, she would always respond with, “Who do you think I am, Andrew Carnegie?” I became reacquainted with him, and his effect on the commercial life of United ...