Title: How to Succeed, According to Andrew Carnegie - Owlcation
Headings: How to Succeed, According to Andrew Carnegie
How to Succeed, According to Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Success and Philanthropic Philosophy
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Content: to give those who desire to rise the aids by which they may rise; to assist, but rarely or never to do all. Neither the individual or the race is improved by alms-giving.” In 1889, he wrote a book titled The Gospel of Wealth. In this book, he stated that people with riches, were “trustees” of their wealth and had a moral obligation to distribute it so that the common man would benefit. In 1911, Andrew Carnegie created the Carnegie Corporation, as a philanthropic trust to benefit others through the money he had earned through his own success. The Carnegie Corporation still exists today. This foundation stands as a legacy to the foundation Andrew Carnegie envisioned to benefit mankind for generations to come. He started the trust to “promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding". The Carnegie Corporation also honors Carnegie’s desire for peace throughout the world and to promote meaningful good and create “ladders on which aspiring can rise”, through grants, programs, and initiatives.