Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller; Captains of industry‚ or robber barons? True‚ Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller may have been the most influential businessmen of the 19th century‚ but was the way they conducted business proper? To fully answer this question‚ we must look at the following: First understand how Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller changed market of their industries. Second‚ look at the similarities and differences in how both men achieved domination. And
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Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller‚ were both at one point in there life’s the richest men in the world. However they both had very different trails getting to their fortunes. Rockefeller was more or less handed money being part of the prestige aristocracy‚ however he was a very shred and organized man. He stressed the idea of planning ahead and never procrastinating‚ in most cases he was a penny-pinching millionaire. Even as a child he was always very organized and always planned ahead. This
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The industrialists were captains of industry because they Put in time and effort into making the economy stronger and bigger. Captains of industry are considered people who are very high on the social chain. Carnegie & Rockefeller were both considered captains of industry rather than robber barons because they did more good rather than bad. These people benefited society and helped created better or stronger ideas that helped businesses or helped save lives. These industrialists weren’t considered
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Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller and Carnegie were all very successful businessmen. These men had many similarities. Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller and Carnegie are three of the greatest businessmen America has ever known. Each man had a work ethic like no other. Nothing other than success was an option. No matter how big the risk‚ these three men were willing to take it if somehow it would put them ahead of their competition. None of these men liked competition. They always wanted to be the best at what they did
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were thriving and the competition to be the wealthiest was through the roof. Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller were two of the most important men in America. Carnegie was the leader of the Steel industry and Rockefeller was the leader of the oil. These two men despised the idea of the other. Carnegie always wanted to be the wealthiest and was always thinking of new ways to be wealthier than Rockefeller. Carnegie came to a point in his career where he would have to come to a decision on what type
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Andrew Carnegie vs. John Rockefeller During the 1800’s‚ two men started as poor‚ working class citizens with a dream‚ a dream to become wealthy and be able to support their families. Both of these men made their dreams come true by ruthless tactics and sometimes were looked down on. These two men were Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller‚ the original entrepreneurs of America. Both men acquired mass fortunes and lived extravagant lives after they had retired‚ but they used their money for good;
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different ideas on what to do with all that money. There was a wide range of viewpoints towards wealth in the late 19th century‚ and the viewpoints between Andrew Carnegie‚ Edward Bellamy‚ and John D. Rockefeller had substantial comparisons and contrasts that are crucial to our knowledge of today’s wealth in the economy. Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland in 1835. He moved with his family to Allegheny‚ Pennsylvania at age thirteen and began his career as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory. He then
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Andrew Carnegie & John D. Rockefeller Two of the most well-known and successful companies of the Industrial Revolution were the Standard Oil Company‚ and the Carnegie Steel Company. Both were exceedingly successful in virtually removing all competition in their respective fields of business and controlling almost all of the production capacity of their respective products in the United States. Their founders‚ John D. Rockefeller of the Standard Oil Co.‚ and Andrew Carnegie of the Carnegie Steel
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men to accept this change in the U.S.‚ Andrew Carnegie overcame his humble underpinnings and became the owner of one of the largest steel companies in the nation. Many poor laborers and citizens of limited means did not reap the benefits of the industrial age as a result of poor working and living conditions in this time. Mr. Carnegie wrote the article‚ The Gospel of Wealth‚ in response to the many critics of the Gilded Age. According to Carnegie‚ the Industrial Age of the U.S. was witness to
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Carnegie Drove Steel Home Andrew Carnegie grew up as a son of a weaver craftsman and a mother who went to work to help support the family when the stream weaving loom came to Scotland. Andrew later wrote‚ after seeing my dad begging for work I knew I would be the one to fix it. I determined that Andrew Carnegie was a captain of industry. He was a captain of industry because he‚ helped build the formidable American steel industry‚ supplied jobs to many people who were out of jobs because of the
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