Carnegie, Andrew

1835 – He was born on the 25th day of November this year in Dunfermline, Scotland.

1851 - He became a telegraph messenger boy in the Pittsburgh Office of the Ohio Telegraph Company

1860 - He had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, as well as bridges and oil derricks, and he built wealth as a bond salesman raising money in Europe for American enterprises.

1870 - He founded the Carnegie Steel Company, a step which cemented his name as one of the “Captains of Industry”.

1889 – He published an article entitled "Wealth" in the June issue of the North American Review.

1901 - He devoted his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, and scientific research.

1919 - He died in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

• "The man who dies rich dies disgraced."
• "Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community."
• "All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."
• "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."
• "Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity."