https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s Did he earn his wealth at the expense of his workers and the consumers within the nation? en-us 2017-01-03 13:55:31 UTC 2026-03-14 09:47:42 UTC hello@padlet.com francismeehan8 https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145063695 Born on November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland, Andrew Carnegie grew up poor. He was the son of a weaver who made linen for a living and his mother worked repairing shoes. He and his family immigrated to America in the 1848 at 13 years old when famine hit hard in Scotland.


]]> 2017-01-03 14:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145063695 francismeehan8 https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145065181 2017-01-03 14:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145065181 francismeehan8 https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145065837 Carnegie’s family began a new life in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the United States. Only 13 at the time, Andrew immediately went to work in a cotton factory as a bobbin boy since his family needed money. He worked 70 hours a week, making only $1.20 each week, leaving no time for school.  Luckily he was intelligent and spent most of his free time reading books. He soon found a new job as a telegraph messenger, where he learned Morse Code and worked with telegraph equipment and in 1851 was promoted to telegraph operator.


]]> 2017-01-03 14:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145065837 francismeehan8 https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145069980 Carnegie began investing his money in businesses like oil, bridges and iron, making connections with powerful businessmen along the way. Carnegie started his first company, Keystone Bridge Company, in 1865, using many of his connections with the railroad companies to build bridges and sell his company’s railroad ties. Eventually he expanded his business and built factories throughout the region.]]> 2017-01-03 14:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145069980 francismeehan8 https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145076189 Andrew Carnegie wrote an article about his belief that the rich should use their wealth to help enrich society called, "The Gospel of Wealth". The following is taken from one of Carnegie's memos to himself:

“Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen, and many so-called poor men, who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reach. It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher than itself. Exalted beyond this, as it sometimes is, it remains Caliban still and still plays the beast. My aspirations take a higher flight. Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light. I hold this the noblest possible use of wealth.”

]]> 2017-01-03 14:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145076189 francismeehan8 https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145081057 Now one of the richest men in the world, Carnegie decided he should give his money to needy causes for the remainder of his life. The first third of his life was gaining all of the education he had, the second third of his life revolved around making all the money he could and now planned to spend the last third of his life giving all of his money away to worthwhile causes. He funded many causes, but libraries were his favorite, funding over 1,600 libraries around the world. He also gave many contributions to help with education, including my father’s alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Additionally he built Carnegie Hall, among many other public institutions like museums. When Carnegie died in 1919 he left most of his remaining wealth to charity.]]> 2017-01-03 14:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145081057 francismeehan8 https://padlet.com/francismeehan8/1t8o8pfhb82s/wish/145082129

“A man who dies rich dies disgraced.”

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” 

“And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.”

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