How Did Andrew Carnegie Impact Society

“You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.” Andrew Carnegie said this meaning that you cannot force someone to become successful unless they are willing to become successful themselves. Andrew Carnegie lived this quote out by always trying to succeed in all of his businesses, not waiting for someone to help him and succeed for him. Andrew Carnegie impacted society by apart of different companies, being apart of the steel industry, and his life accomplishments or even the money he would give to charity. Carnegie’s accomplished many things in life and lost many things, Carnegie was born to a handloom weaver in Dunfermline Scotland, on November 25, 1835. When his father died in 1855, he realised how important education was.Carnegie realised that education was the driving force behind America’s political and industrial growth. Carnegie was closer to his mother when she died in 1886. He then got married to Louis Whitfield at the age of 51, after his mother died, he only had 1 child. Carnegie then died of bronchial pneumonia on August 11, 1919 at his summer house in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Carnegie was able to focus on low cost and mass production which helped him take his businesses to great heights. Carnegie became a messenger in in a telegrapher office where he caught the eye of Thomas Scott, a superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Taking the first step toward an investment program, Carnegie bought stock in a sleeping car company and in a short time was making more from his speculative venture than from his regular job. He later made a similarly small investment in oil during its formative years and again profited amazingly. In 1859 Carnegie was appointed superintendent for Pennsylvania