When Andrew Carnegie arrived in America in 1848, he was penniless. When he retired he was the richest man in the world.
Yet he gave away all his money to philanthropy.
How can a poor boy become the world’s richest man. Can anyone with no money and no inborn talent, with just an intense desire to succeed start a business and succeed?. Let us check out the great Carnegie’s story..
What you could learn from this episode:
- What he learnt from his fathers poverty.
- How Carnegie educated himself even though he couldn’t continue to go to school.
- What drove him from a low level worker to move up to a successful business man.
- What two things he did to differentiate from his competitors.
- How he overcame his competitors, when they tried to crush him.
- Why he gave away almost all his wealth.
