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The Empire of Business

The Empire of Business

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Number of Chapters: 21

Length: 08 hours and 40 minutes

Language: English

This collection of essays by Scottish-American steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie, gathered from various periodicals and first published in book form in 1902, provides insight into one of history’s richest and most notable entrepreneurs/philanthropists. Carnegie shares his outlook on the economic situation in America at the turn of the 20th century, the state of the US oil, coal, rail, and steel industries, the relationship between capital and labour, individualism vs. socialism, the public/private sector partnership, the upward climb of humanity into prosperity, the importance of land and population, trade and the best uses of tariffs, etc. He also discusses the personal rewards of hard work, integrity, thrift, how to accumulate wealth, cultivation of the lifelong reading habit, use of libraries, and other advice for achieving success. Included is one of his most famous little essays, "The Three Legged Stool". - Summary by Michele Fry

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I. The Road To Business Success - A Talk To Young Men (KevinS)
II. The Common Interest of Labour and Capital (Michele Fry)
III. Thrift As A Duty (KevinS)
IV. How To Win Fortune (Tina Ding)
V. Wealth and Its Uses (Tina Ding)
VI. Anglo-American Trade Relations (Michele Fry)
VII. Business, Part 1 (William Allan Jones)
VIII. Business Part 2 (William Allan Jones)
IX. The Three-Legged Stool (Wayne Cooke)
X. Railroads, Past and Present (Joanne Turner)
XI. Wealth, Part 1 (Tom Carroll)
XII. Wealth, Part 2 (Tom Carroll)
XIII. Labour (Michele Fry)
XIV. Wages (Joanne Turner)
XV. Thrift (Wayne Cooke)
XVI. The Land (Danetrain)
XVII. Individualism versus Socialism (djpentz)
XVIII. Variety versus Uniformity (dqtcat)
XIX. Family Relations (dqtcat)
XX. The Long March Upward (Wayne Cooke)
XXI. My Experience with Railway Rates and Rebates (Joanne Turner)
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