Warren Buffett the most successful investor in the world peaked at 63.9 billion, Bill Gates the Microsoft man, wealthiest man in the world right now peaked at 136 billion, Andrew Carnegie peaked at 309 billion (Andrew Carnegie Pioneer)! Founder of U.S. steel company the father of modern business and philanthropy built an empire from nothing, the first and most successful example that the american dream is real. Born in Scotland on November 25th, 1835 his father worked in the the textile business and mother sewing shoes. When he was 12 his father lost his job as a weaver to the steam powered loom, at thirteen his family moved to Pittsburg in search of opportunity. Arriving in Pittsburgh andrew first found work as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill …show more content…
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Henry ford set the stage for businessmen today. The way these men set the stage for businessmen for ages to come is the amount of success they had in their business, there rags to riches stories of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford, become so powerful to own an entire market and the ambitious instincts that made them the people studied in history classes across the world. John D. Rockefeller marketed his product as the only oil company worthy of the american people. During the civil war the country is obsessed with light and oil is the only way to get it. Rockefeller sees oil as a new necessity and money maker but he knows drilling for oil can be risky and the business is a gamble, he fears losing the gamble and searches for another way to make himself rich off oil. He learns that refining the oil from the grounds purifies it into a clean burning substance that can be used in lamps called kerosene. At twenty four years old John D. Rockefeller invest everything he has, about four thousand dollars into his first refinery. Kerosene is given a bad