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Association. Their are so many reasons why Andrew Carnegie deserves a spot in the Entrepreneur’s Hall of Fame Association. Andrew Carnegie has done so many amazing things in his life. Andrew Carnegie’s life didn't start in America. His life started in Dunfermline, United Kingdom. In 1884, his family came to America from United Kingdom. They found a place in Pennsylvania. They had come to America with absolutely nothing. As a child, he would fetch water from the town well. Andrew Carnegie wasn't…

Andrew Carnegie Eulogy We are gathered here today to pay our respects to Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Andrew was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. At the age of 13, in 1848, he moved to the United States. Andrew worked a series of odd-end jobs and later found his way into the world of business. He started Carnegie Steel Corporation in 1889 and in 1901 he sold his business and dedicated the rest of his life to his philanthropic work, including the founding of Carnegie Institute…

In document 9 it shows how generous he was with the money he makes. He gave a lot of money to many different places. The list of places he has donated to was Princeton University, TIAA, Dunfermline Trust, Homestead Relief Fund, Church organs, Carnegie Peace Endowment, Universities of Scotland, Teachers’ Pension Fund, Carnegie Institution, Free public libraries, and Carnegie Corporation. His total giving overall was…

The Gospel of Wealth was written by Andrew Carnegie, one of the wealthiest and most successful industrialists of his time. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and after Industrialism swept his town, his parents were out of work, causing Carnegie’s family to immigrate to the United States. He taught himself how to read at libraries. He then gradually worked his way up through the steel industry to become one of the most successful businessmen and philanthropists of his time. Carnegie…

“We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.”(-Andrew Carnegie) The book Andrew Carnegie Story written by Charlie May Simon's, Published on 1965.. This book was mainly about his success in his career, and how this important…

Karl Marx and Andrew Carnegie both had different views on how the wealthy and the working classes should work together in society, but both sides show reasonable explanations of how it should work. They each tell their thoughts on how the wealthy should redistribute their riches back to society, to help even out the major wealth inequality that is being face. Both have different views on how and how much money shall be redistributed for the greater well being of our nation as a whole. Karl Marx…

derived from different beginnings. They both embraced life’s challenges and made the decisions necessary to, one, become the wealthy men they desired to be, and two, not forget about those in need, through charity work. In a small town named Dunfermline, Scotland, on November 25, 1835, Andrew Carnegie was born in the small gray stone cottage on Moodie Street. His father was a weaver, just like two-thirds of the population of…

Steel Corporation was the largest steel manufacturing corporation in the world! Later in his life, the successful magnant became a generous philanthropist most known for his donations of public libraries to cities- starting from his home town, Dunfermline, and extended to all of the English-speaking places such as United States, United Kingdom, and New Zealand. After two years he composed The Gospel of Wealth, which strongly enunciated his perspective of the rich as trustees of their riches who…

Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. His father Will Carnegie, his mother Margaret, and his younger brother Tom immigrated to united State as a penniless immigrant seeking for a better future after his father faced an economic burden due to the advance of mechanization. They settled in Allegheny city, a suburb of Pittsburg where Carnegie’s mother had relatives. At the age of thirteen, Carnegie started his first job as a bobbin boy to help his family survive.…

immigrant that became the richest man in the world, and then he spent the rest of his life giving away his money. Andrew Carnegie was a poor man before he became one of the richest men of the world. On November 25, 1835, Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, United Kingdom which was the center of the linen industry. Carnegie’s mother was…