ANDREW CARNEGIE

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ANDREW CARNEGIE

• Presented by Mélanie Baratté
• December 13, 2006

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Introduction

• Biography
• Carreer
• Controversies
• Philantrophist
• Books
• Conclusion

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Biography

• November 25, 1835 Born Andrew Carnegie In
  Dunfermline, Scotland
• 1848 Family Carnegie emigrates to the united
  states, Pittsburgh
• 1851 Carnegie becomes telegraph messenger boy
• 1855 Carnegies father died and carnegie starts
  to invest
• 1874 Carnegie establishes his own Steel Company
• 1880 Carnegie starts writing books
• 1886 Carnegie's mother and brother die
• 1887 Carnegies marries Louise Whitfield
• 1889 Carnegie wrote the book Gospel of Wealth
• 1901 Carnegie as a Philantropist
• 1919 Carnegie died on august 11 in Lenox,
  Massachusetts

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Career

• work as messenger
• work at the Pennsylvania Railroad
• investment in a sleeping car company
• Carnegie gets promotion
• investment in oil
• retire from railroad and go into the iron and
  steel business
• Carnegie opens his first steel plant
• Carnegie sells the Carnegie Steel Company
• Here is the prime condition of success
  Concentrate your energy, thought and capital
  exclusively upon the business in which you are
  engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to
  fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt
  every improvement, have the best machinery, and
  know the most about it.

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Controversies

• The Homestead strike (1982)
• Strike between the National Amalgamated
  Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the
  Carnegie Steel Company

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Philantropist

• Political, social and educational interested
• Especially libraries
• Carnegie founded 1.500.000,- for the Peace
  Palace at The Hague
• Gave 90 of his fortune away
• In a public library men could at least share
• cultural opportunities on a basis of equality.

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Books

• Round the World (1881)
• An American Four-in-hand in Britain (1883)
• Triumphant Democracy (1886)
• The Gospel of wealth (1889)
• The Empire of Business (1902)
• Problems of Today (1907)
• No man will make a great leader who wants to do
  it all himself, or to get all the credit for
  doing it.

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Conslusion

• Education is important
• Be good in your work
• Do something useful with your money
• Questions?