Dale Carnegie

explaining how each american sets themselves goals for the future and it depends on how hard you work to reach those goals, or in other words their American Dream. Three examples of people who worked hard and achieved their dreams are Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Oprah Winfrey. Rockefeller started off as a young boy who…

struggled so hard to pay for our living condition. We were promise to have good wages and work rule. What did we gain? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! We are aware that the Carnegie steel Corporation has a high profit. It is unclear why they are cutting our wages and I feel they are trying to destroy us by giving little wages. Carnegie Steel proposed an 18% wage reduction as part of a new pay scale. I disagree with that assessment because that is still not enough to help feed our family. In fact, I…

Andrew Carnegie started working for a railroad in Pittsburgh. He was 12 years old at the time. He met Tom Scott, the company’s President. Scott hired Carnegie as his personal assistant. Carnegie wanted to grow up and go to school. However, his family could not make it without him working because he was the man of the household. When Carnegie took on some of the tasks that he did Scott realized how important this young boy was and quickly moved him up in the ranks of the company. Carnegie became…

been said many times before, that the story of Andrew Carnegie was a true rags to riches story. He is one of the pioneers of the industrialization of America and the king of the steel industry in the 1800’s. Nearing the turn of the century Carnegie sold his multi-billion dollar companies and turned his focus onto philanthropy. He was one, if not the first, to publicly say all of the rich had a moral obligation to give away their fortune. Carnegie ‘put his money where his mouth was’ by giving…

In 1889, Andrew Carnegie wrote an article concerning surplus wealth called, “Wealth”. As an immigrant from Scotland, Andrew took himself from the low end of the income spectrum to the extreme opposite. With the gained knowledge and values he obtained from the industry, Andrew responded to the issue of the country’s administration of wealth. He believed that competence should be what all individuals strive for whether he/she is rich or poor. The extra wealth surplus potentially could be…

p.2).” Andrew Carnegie was a wealthy individual in industry. Steel became one of the major products to come out of the industrialization period because it was more affordable than iron. The Bessemer process was created to help in the steelmaking process. Carnegie helped many people out of the kindness of his heart. Andrew Carnegie helped industrialize America, he was the author of The Gospel of Wealth, and he gave back to the community by funding places in need. Andrew Carnegie helped in the…

• Name of Industrialist: Andrew Carnegie. • How did he acquire his wealth? - Andrew Carnegie was born into a family who believed in the importance of books and learning in Dunfermline, Scotland. After he immigrated to the United States in 1858, he started with his first job as a telegrapher and then invested in railroads. With constant efforts, he established the Carnegie Steel Company in 1889 that was the largest steel company in the world. He made huge sums of money from the steel industry.…

The Gospel of Wealth Andrew Carnegie was the incarnation and manifestation of an ideal American Dream as he began his career as a replaceable servant and rose to power as he became a premier American Industrialist. Through years of hard work and determination he had finally become an established member of society when he started his Carnegie Steel Company. After attaining his massive wealth he published an essay in regards to the wealthy’s treatment of the laissez-faire, concerned about social…

Henry Clay Frick was labeled as a robber baron. Frick was born to a farming family in western Pennsylvania and received little formal education (Encyclopedia of World Biography). His grandfather was a wealthy miller and distiller and Frick became bookkeeper for his grandfather's businesses at age 19 (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Frick was knowledgeable of the potential value of coking coal deposits for the developing steel industry (YourDictionary). With financial help from relatives and…

Andrew Carnegie was one of the most famous businessman during the 1800’s. He worked in the steel industry and contributed a lot to the American society and economy. But he wasn’t as good as he looked, and he for sure wasn’t a hero. A hero is someone who cares about others and who is admired for having basic human qualities. But Carnegie never cared about them, and he lacked empathy and humanity. Andrew Carnegie wasn’t a hero because he mistreated his workers and he just gave money away to make…