Andrew Carnegie

Mr. Garrett promptly replied that when the interests of his company were at stake it was the best always that won. His engineers had reported that…

The negotiation was still unsatisfactory to me, because we were to get all the difficult part of the work--the great spans of which the risk was then…

This was the arrangement which gave us what were then the gigantic contracts of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It is needless to say that I never…

The Keystone Works have always been my pet as being the parent of all the other works. But they had not been long in existence before the advantage…

Andrew Kloman had a small steel-hammer in Allegheny City. As a superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad I had found that he made the best axles.…

"It is all very well for you, gentlemen, who work one day in the week and are masters of your time the other six during which you can view the…

As I became acquainted with the manufacture of iron I was greatly surprised to find that the cost of each of the various processes was unknown.…

The Siemens Gas Furnace had been used to some extent in Great Britain for heating steel and iron, but it was supposed to be too expensive. I well…

Our strict system of accounting enabled us to detect the great waste possible in heating large masses of iron. This improvement revealed to us a…

It was in 1862 that the great oil wells of Pennsylvania attracted attention. My friend Mr. William Coleman, whose daughter became, at a later date,…

What surprised me was the good humor which prevailed everywhere. It was a vast picnic, full of amusing incidents. Everybody was in high glee;…

To-day Oil Creek is a town of many thousand inhabitants, as is also Titusville at the other end of the creek. The district which began by…

This forty-thousand-dollar investment proved for us the best of all so far. The revenues from it came at the most opportune time.[28] The building of…

My investments now began to require so much of my personal attention that I resolved to leave the service of the railway company and devote myself…

Twelve years of pleasant intercourse have served to inspire feelings of personal regard for those who have so faithfully labored with me in the…

Thenceforth I never worked for a salary. A man must necessarily occupy a narrow field who is at the beck and call of others. Even if he becomes…

The sum was soon made in oil stock by the investment of a few hundred dollars which "Vandy" had saved. This was the beginning of our excursion. We…

Protection has played a great part in the development of manufacturing in the United States. Previous to the Civil War it was a party question, the…

Capital no longer hesitated to embark in manufacturing, confident as it was that the nation would protect it as long as necessary. Years after the…

We could now (1907) abolish all duties upon steel and iron without injury, essential as these duties were at the beginning. Europe has not much…

I was surprised to find how very different was the state of affairs in New York. There were few even of the business men who had not their ventures…

All these allurements I declined. The most notable offer of this kind I ever received was one morning in the Windsor Hotel soon after my removal to…