PPT ON ANDREW CARNEGIE AN RAGS TO RICHES SUCCESS STORY

1. RAGS TO RICHES
An example of famous personality

3. CHILDHOOD
 Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland on 25 November, 1835, But he moved to
America at young age with his poor parents.
 His father name was William Carnegie and mother Margaret Morrison .
 At age of 13, he worked for a telegraph company and a textile mill but soon after , he
started working for Pennsylvania railroad .
 By the age of 17, he was already the supritendent of PA railroad .

4. CLIMBING THE TRAIN
 Andrew used fresh ideas to cut costs and increase profits.
Burning train cars instead of salvaging.
 Bigger, stronger, longer trains capable of carrying larger loads.

5. IRON AND RAILROADS- THE
BESSEMER PROCESS
The Bessemer process is a way to mass
produse steel .
Though Carnegie did’t discover the Bessemer
process, but he used it to become the largest
steel producer in U.S.A

6. Andrew’s new company
 Carnegie put the majority of his money
towards public benefit.
 “To hasten the abolition of war “
Carnegie donated 10 million to
Washington to be put towards complete
abolition of war.
 He built a total of 1,697 libraries across
the U.S.A, all totaling 56 million dolars
Philanthrophy
 With his knowledge of the
beessember process, Carnegie
started his own steel company.
By 1990, Carnegie was back in
Scotland, and his company
waswas one pf the llargest in the
world.

7. LIFE AFTER BIG BUSINESS
He sold the company for 480 millions to his competitor JP Morgan.
He dedicated his rest of his life to philanthropy until august 11, 1919.
He said “A man who dies rich, dies in ashame.
By then he was the richest man in the world.