If Andrew Carnegie never was, the world wouldn’t be as it is today. At the age of thirty, Andrew decided to go into business with his former bosses from the Pennsylvania Railroad. The fortune he earned helped to develop oil wells, iron manufactures, bridges and bond trading. He delegated his tasks to those that he worked with, which left him time to work on other projects. More time meant more reflecting, he realized that his success came from informal …show more content…
He had a technique called the Carnegie technique; “focus on an objective, then cut brutally through any conventions, competitors, or ordinary people who stood in your way” (Morris, 2006). He was out to dominate, to be the best and the biggest. His mind noticed it all, even the littlest of things. His terribly loyal employees would hear it if they failed at even the littlest. Carnegie wanted to rise; competition made his blood boil and he loved it. He used all of his energy to cheat Henry Frick out of his stake in the Carnegie Empire. As assertive of a person Andrew may have been, he also had incredibly pure intentions and motivations of why he did what he did. It is said; the only person that could keep up with Carnegie was John D. Rockefeller who eventually bought him