Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie was a captain of industry because he gained a lot of money, but didn’t save all of it for himself. He gave his money to charities and different causes that benefited others. Carnegie believed in the “Gospel of Wealth”. This was an article that Carnegie wrote about how wealthy people should give their money to others instead of keeping it for themselves. He supported education and reading because he loved to read and he thought it was important for new generations. In his early life, he didn’t have a lot of money. He was a story of rags to riches. Carnegie learned the value of hard work from his mother. He stopped going to school at the age of 13 because his mother made him and his brother move to America.