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    HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING -Dale Carnegie Dale Carnegie •From New York • Selling Motor Cars • Interested in reading and writing books • Trained from State Teachers’ College Missouri • Started teaching in YMCA night schools • Wrote book “How to Win Friends and Influence People “ • Main problem faced by adults – WORRY ! “How To Stop Worrying and Start Living” Fundamental Facts About Worry • Sir William Osler- Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University • 21 words by Thomas

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    rapid industrialization and extreme economical expansion and wealth for America. Many businessmen such as J.P. Morgan‚ John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt among others reached the pinnacle of wealth and amassed huge amounts of money. Many individuals developed contrasting attitudes and views on this newly created wealth. Among these individuals were Andrew Carnegie‚ Eugene V. Debs‚ and Booker T. Washington. Seemingly similar people‚ and yet they were almost completely different. One was a

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    Standard Oil Company founded by John D. Rockefeller and the U.S. Steel Company founded by Andrew Carnegie. The Standard Oil Company and U.S. Steel Company were made successful in different ways due to the actions of their different owners. The companies differed in their labor relations‚ market control‚ and structural organization. In the steel industry‚ Carnegie developed a system known as vertical integration. This means that he cut out the middle man. Carnegie bought his own iron and coal mines

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    of the most famous entrepreneurs‚ Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller‚ were the most renown of these people. Their success is seen through all the things that are named after them - the Carnegie Library‚ Carnegie Hall‚ Carnegie Mellon University‚ Rockefeller Foundation‚ Rockefeller Center‚ and many more. Though they may seem very much alike‚ these two businessmen share differences as well. Despite the fact that Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller gained their position in two diverse ways

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    by paying a substitute. Morgan was very important in dealing with many financial crises. After gaining so much money‚ Morgan would use it on buying expensive art collections (History). This was not the ideal figure of an “American Hero”. Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland to a modest family. He then moved to the United States and became a “bobbin boy” and

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    across the United States. Robber barons saw opportunities for mobilizing large capital and for building large businesses. The so-called "robber barons" grabbed those opportunities. Two men who have been called robber barons were Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Both started with very little in life‚ but went on to achieve fortunes. These tycoons built industry empires that impacted American society‚ not only for allowing economic business growth but also affected our society by giving back

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    The period of invention after the Civil War set the stage for immense industrial growth (Cayton 237). This period of time in the late 1800’s is known as the Industrial Revolution. Two prominent names in big business were John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. There is no doubt that these people left their mark on business and on history. However‚ there is some dispute over how these individuals should be portrayed. Some people say that they were robber barons‚ while others insist that they were

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    Andrew Carnegie‚ a man who was in the steel industry‚ one of the greatest things that ever happened to man kind. He used a system of vertical integration and he also bout his own coal mines and his own iron which made competitors go into danger because they had to buy there own raw materials for an extremely higher price. Carnegie was a philanthropist before all of this great success happened and he was also known for being involved in many public organizations because he built hundreds of public

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    a “Robber Baron” or a hero of industry? A “robber baron” was someone who employed any means necessary to enrich themselves at the expense of their competitors. Two big Businessman/ industrialists during the 1800’s-1900’s were John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Each businessman contributed something during their lifetime that made people question whether or not they were Robber Barron’s or a hero of Industry. Did each of these businessmen fall into that category or was he one of the “captains

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    This episode in the men who built america spoke mainly of some of the richest people in the world’s history CarnegieRockefeller‚ Morgan‚ and Ford all americans and all in the same relative time period. It covers what each of these remarkable individuals did that affected america from ford’s assembly line to the buying of the presidency. But it did not just cover what effects their actions had on america it covered their motivations and what may have inspired them to be so successful. All of them

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