Nothing stranger ever came out of the story of this poor Scotch boy who came to America and step by step through many trials and triumphs became the great steelmaster, built up a colossal industry, amassed an enormous fortune, and then deliberately and systematically

gave away the whole of it for the enlightenment and betterment of mankind.

Not only that, he established a gospel of wealth that can be neither

ignored nor forgotten and set a pace in distribution that succeeding

millionaires have followed as a precedent.

That is an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is written

over a hundred years ago, which is the autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.

This is my second time reading the autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.

A few years ago, I did a three-part

series on Andrew Carnegie and his partner Henry Clay Fric. If you're interested in

diving deeper into that it's episode 73, 74, and 75. To prepare for this

podcast not only did I reread Andrew Carnegie's autobiography, but I reread all my

notes and highlights from the fantastic book, which I did on episode 73, which is called

Meach you and Hell, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clayfrich,

and the bitter partnership that transformed America.

And so it occurred to me last night as I was re-reading my highlights from Meach and

Hell, there's a handful of highlights that I think I should tell you first

before we jump into Carnegie's

autobiography that I think will give you context in how he approached building his

businesses and what he had in common with some of other history's greatest

entrepreneurs Henry Clay Frick obviously being one of them which is his partner but also

Jay Gold and John D Rockefeller.

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