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How to Take Over the World

Andrew Carnegie (Part 1)

How to Take Over the World

Benjamin Wilson

Self-improvement, Education, History

5.0853 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The rise of Andrew Carnegie from a poor Scottish weaver's boy to becoming an American millionaire.00:00 Introduction 03:00 Carnegie's Early Life and Inspirations 07:50 Coming to America 12:00 The Power of Self-Education 28:15 Becoming a Capitalist: The Adams Express Investment 36:30 Rapid Rise in the Railroad Industry 42:15 Carnegie's Role in the Civil War 50:30 Carnegie's Business Philosophy and Networking 56:15 Final Reflections and Takeaways----Sponsors:David Senra PodcastZashi WalletSpeechify----Sources:Autobiography of Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie by David Nasaw * This episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep. Go to HelixSleep.com/TakeOverPod for 20% off your purchase. * This episode is brought to you by Incogni. Go to Incogni.com/takeover for 60% off. ----- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

How hard do you have to work to become a billionaire?

0:04.0

And I'm not talking about an inheritance situation.

0:07.0

I'm talking about a self-made billionaire.

0:10.0

You've got to grind.

0:11.0

You've got to grind yourself to the bone.

0:14.0

That's the only way, right?

0:17.0

At least that is what we are told.

0:19.0

But at least one mega-abillionaire would disagree.

0:22.4

Andrew Carnegie founded one of the great corporations of all time, Carnegie Steel, which would

0:26.3

go on to become U.S. Steel, and he was, for a time, the richest man on the planet.

0:32.0

He was so wealthy that he spent the last 20 years of his life trying his hardest to give away

0:36.9

his fortune.

0:38.1

He established a brand new elite university, Carnegie Mellon.

0:41.8

He built more than 2,500 libraries and basically built the American public library system

0:46.4

from scratch.

0:47.4

He built Carnegie Music Hall.

0:48.7

He revolutionized education.

0:50.7

And yet for all of this, not only did he not manage to give away all of his money, he didn't even manage to lower his net worth.

1:00.0

His companies simply made money faster than he could give it away.

1:04.7

So that is the type of billionaire we are talking about.

1:07.0

So how hard do you have to work to become that?

1:10.2

The answer is, not hard at all.

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