Achieving Personal Goals

Andrew Carnegie was one of the wealthiest men in America but his wealth didn’t come without hard work and dedication. Carnegie was born in “Dunfermline, Scotland on November 25, 1835” (Tyle). According to Laura B. Tyle, the invention of the weaving machine unfortunately pushed Carnegie’s family in to poverty “In 1848, Carnegie’s family left Scotland and moved to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, where his father and eventually him worked in a cotton factory” (Tyle). After leaving the cotton factory “Carnegie became a messenger boy for the Pittsburgh telegraph office and eventually made his way up to telegraph operator” (Tyle). According to Laura B. Tyle “Thomas A. Scott, the superintendent of the western division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, made Carnegie his secretary at the age of eighteen.” Later, Carnegie took over Scott’s position of the railroad. Furthermore Carnegie “began to see that steel was going to replace iron and by 1873 he organized a steel rail company” (Tyle). According to Laura B. Tyle he continued to build his company when he “cut prices, drove out competitors,

then realized the demand for steel was very high and he started his own steel company. Carnegie

Born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland, Andrew Carnegie was the second son of Will and Margaret Carnegie. His father was handloom weavers while his mother worked for a local shoemaker. In 1848, the Carnegie family came to America hoping for better economic opportunities and established in Pennsylvania and this is when Andrew Carnegie formal education ended because his family had no money for education. He then got his first job as a bobbin boy at a cotton factory, earning $1.20 a week. After this he had quite a few different job one of which was at the railroad where he made got money and that’s when he was able to make some investments in coal, iron and oil companies and a manufacturer of railroad sleeping cars. In 1865, Carnegie left the railroad job and he continued his ascent in the business world. But because the railroad industry experienced a rapid growth during that time in the United Stated, Carnegie made an investment in the railroad business and by the age of 30th he was the richest person. In the early 1870s, he started working in the steel business, and very soon he became one of the most important people in the field. Despite of his success in 1901, he sold his steel company to banker John Pierpont Morgan for $480 million. Carnegie then dedicated

Andrew Carnegie built his fortune out of nothing, clawing his way to the top and making his fortune by seeing the expanding usage of steel and quickly jumping on the opportunity, becoming one of the first and biggest steel producers in America, and later the world[2]. With this massive corporation

Carnegie earned a lot of money from his investments and quit his job with the railroad to focus on his business affairs, which included frequent traveling to Europe to sell railroad bonds. On one trip, Andrew Carnegie met the English inventor, Sir Henry Bessemer, who had invented a new process for making high quality steel efficiently and cheaply. After meeting Bessemer, Carnegie decided to concentrate his investments in the steel industry. He opened a steel company in Pittsburgh and adapted his steel mills to use the Bessemer process. The process allowed Andrew Carnegie to manufacture steel efficiently and cheaply. To increase manufacturing efficiency even further, Carnegie began the vertical and horizontal integration of the steel industry, which allowed Carnegie Steel Company to save money as it expanded. He quickly became one of the richest people in history due to his hard work before the creation of Carnegie Steel and during its operation. Andrew Carnegie sold Carnegie Steel Company to J.P. Morgan. Carnegie became a philanthropist in his retirement and gave away $350 million, which was about 90% of his fortune. He built

“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die” (Sandlot). This quote perfectly represents Babe Ruth. George Herman Ruth was born in Baltimore. He was one of eight children but only he and his younger sister survived through infancy. He was a very troubled child and was unruly and disruptive. His mother and father were tavern owners and were always very busy with the business and that left Ruth without a constant father figure or role model. Ruth showed the human spirit of triumphing over adversity by turning his childhood around, being positive when no one believed in him, and by the end of his life, not letting cancer hinder him from doing what he believed in.

He established many other steel plants, and in 1892, he merged all of his interests into the Carnegie Steel Company. This act from Carnegie is fitting with one of his most famous quotations, "Put all of your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket." This firm became one of the greatest industrial enterprises in America. Carnegie later sold it to J.P. Morgan's United States Steel Corporation in 1901 for $400 million, which would be a little over $4 billion today! After retiring, Carnegie's fortune was estimated to be as large as half a billion dollars. From that time on, with the philosophy that the rich have a moral obligation to give away their money, he devoted himself to philanthropy. Although ironic, this man of great fortune strongly believed in the merits of poverty for the development of character and work ethic, and determined that wealthy men should not leave their fortunes to their children, but should give it away, claiming "The man who dies thus rich, dies disgraced." The picture of community service, Carnegie is quoted as saying, "Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy, and cannot be torn out. I can never be one hair's breadth less loyal to her, or less anxious to help her in any way, than I have been since I could help anything. My treasure is still with you, and how best to serve Pittsburgh is the question which occurs to me almost every day of my life." Colonel James Anderson, who Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie is known as the king of steel. He was born November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. In 1848 he and he and his family immigrated to America and ended up in Pittsburg, where they lived in a small house and had very little money. In 1872 he traveled to England where he met Henry Bessemer, the man who converted iron into steel. He took Bessemer’s brilliant steel-making process back to America and built several steel mills in Pennsylvania. At the age of 65 he finally decided it was time to move on from the mills and he sold the Carnegie Steel Company to J.P. Morgan for $480,000,000. A hero is

Carnegie also traveled to Europe multiple times to sell railroad securities. While in Europe, he met many steelmakers which inspired him to look into the steel making business. He then became the manager of the Keystone Bridge Company which he had previously invested in so that he could work on producing more iron and steel. He then founded J. Edgar Thompson Steel Works which would later become the Carnegie Steel Company. He used the Bessemer production method from Britain to make steel and iron.

Carnegie did not come from a wealthy family, he like other had to work his way up the class latter, Carnegie worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory as a boy before rising to the position of division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859.” Carnegie initiated the first of the uses for steel in railroads. As a young man Andrew Carnegie had worked on railroads, so he knew that he could take advantage of his skills. The name of his company was called Carnegie Steel. His innovative ideas to make the use of steel helped create what we see now in the United States, “In a desire to make steel more cheaply and more efficiently, he successfully adopted the Bessemer process at his Homestead Steel Works plant.” Carnegie took a simple process and converted it into a renowned national industry. A system that helped Carnegie’s business success was due to Vertical Integration.Vertical Integration is the taking over of all the different businesses’ suppliers so that a company would only rely on this for its main function, he took in many other companies so that his wealth could grow. However, even Carnegie knew that he had to give back money. Now as a philanthropist, Carnegie donated over the course of his lifetime about three

Andrew Carnegie’s most well know impact was his impact in the steel industry. In Pittsburgh, Andrew Carnegie co-founded his very first steel company in the early 1870’s. He adopted the Bessemer process to make his desire of making steel more cheaply and efficiently capable of happening. By 1889, most of the steel production in the United States was under Andrew Carnegie’s control. The steel industry was doing so well that it outpaced the steel production in the United Kingdom. Along with the United States outpacing the United Kingdom still production, Andrew Carnegie was also one of the wealthiest men in America.

Babe Ruth is one of America’s greatest Baseball player but we grow old and die so other people can try to be the best and try harder to be the world’s greatest baseball

My personal goal as a student at the University of Phoenix is to obtain a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management within the next two years. This goal is very important to me because of the impact it will have on my family, work and personal life. In my family it will set a positive example for my daughters, grandchildren, and youngest sister. My family has been a source of support throughout my years in college as I have pursued this degree while maintaining a full time job. Obtaining the degree will be an accomplishment not only for me but also for my family who has given me the encouragement to reach my goal. I would like for my grandchildren to remember their grandmother as a strong and educated woman.

As most of my peers, I have been asking myself a question, what do I want out of my life? This question bothers many people, and not only the college students who are trying to figure out the path that will lead them to the comfortable life. One might ask, what is that comfort that we all are striving for? Is it a state of mind or is it some unknown world that we are so eager to enter. It varies from person to person; there are several aspects, such the way were raised, making, of our lives that could influence a person and the future decisions that we’ll make.

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into visible” -said Tony Robbins, author and life coach. Everyone has challenges throughout their life, but people have strengths that can lead up to effect their future. We use our goals to keep us motivated and our strengths to help us get past the challenges we face. Our weaknesses fade because our strengths become so strong and we are faced with new challenges. With each challenge we overcome we become stronger and we find more strengths in our challenges. I am a great friend because I always care for my friends and i'm their shoulder to cry on. I'm a very strong-willed person because I don't give up on something I want easily. I’m stubborn because I