Starting off, Andrew Carnegie grew up in a lower-class family in Scotland. He was very malnourished and was close to starvation when his family immigrated to the US., specifically Pennsylvania. Still suffering in poverty in America, Carnegie’s family was struggling to survive, but their life was way better compared to what it was in Scotland.
His first job was being a bobbin boy, where he changed spools of cotton and wool for 12 hours. He was paid $1.20 a week, but was left unsatisfied with the income. He kept climbing his way up in the career field, trying to make any sort of income that he could to scrape by and survive. By age 18, he was working full time, and had mastered the art of hard work.
Eventually, he reached a point in his life where he could start investing all of the money that he had worked so hard for. Carnegie’s first investment was in the Adam’s Express Company, a messenger service. He kept investing, then one day met an income of $1 million. He used his money to help others, such as paying for the construction of a library, or donating it to hospitals to help nurses. He took the minimal resources he had to work hard and perfect the skills that he would later use to achieve ultimate success.