Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

A community portal about Andrew Carnegie with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American businessman, a major and widely respected philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel... [more]

A community portal about Andrew Carnegie with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American businessman, a major and widely respected philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S. Steel. He is known for having built one of the most powerful and influential corporations in United States history, and, later in his life, giving away most of his riches to fund the establishment of many libraries, schools, and universities in Scotland, America and worldwide. Carnegie first invested in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks. But steel was what made him very rich. Before he invested in steel, he was going to stop working and start helping others, but instead he kept on working and got wealthier and wealthier. He then entered the iron business and discovered steel was very useful and made a lot of money. He founded the Carnegie Steel Company, which made him known as one of the “Captains of Industry”.

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This may be off-topic but having watched Bill Gates up close for nearly three decades, and being about the same age, I thought he deserved a little send-off. Unlike Andrew Carnegie , whose career his most ...
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Carnegie Hall, one of the most famous concert venues for classical and popular music in the United States, is in Midtown Manhattan on Seventh Avenue at West 56th Street. It was built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1890 and is renowned for its ...
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1. Andrew Carnegie was a originally from Scotland, but made millions in America from the steel industry during the late 1800s. 2. He used his millions for philanthropy and education funding institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and many other worthwhile...
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"I shall argue that strong men ... know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle." - Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist Carnegie lived in an era when few ...
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"I shall argue that strong men ... know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle." - Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist Carnegie lived in an era when ...
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Andrew Carnegie funded construction of 2,500 libraries in the United States, Britain and Ireland Andrew Carnegie was a small man who wore stovepipe hats and elevating shoes to seem taller.
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Some in the press love to liken Bill Gates to Andrew Carnegie , Mr. Free Library.
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A leading Microsoft researcher started an international conference on digital libraries in Pittsburgh on Tuesday with a homage to Andrew Carnegie.
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'The man who dies rich," the Scottish-born American magnate Andrew Carnegie wrote in 1889, "dies disgraced." Practising what he preached, Carnegie subsequently gave up his day job running the US steel industry ...
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