"one of America's wealthiest men his Holdings valued at more than a hundred billion dollar in today's dollars sat up in his sick bed in his Manhattan home and called to one of his Caregivers for a pen ..."

"first in a long string of vengeful acts had Carnegie divulged the contents of this letter the secretary's expression would have likely turned to outright astonishment Bridge left Carnegie and made his..."

"that past grievances were beneath their dignity they were first among equals surely it was time to meet and patch up the wounds they had inflicted upon each other the words might have touched a chord ..."

"this book is easier to learn about the life of Andrew Ki than his own autobiography and it has to do with not only the quality of the author's writing but also of the main focus of the book is on the ..."

"expansion of the Nations railroad system and so it says as the Civil War began there were fewer than 30,000 miles of track in all of the United States and much of that was in varying gauges and states..."

"history truly gigantic businesses they talk about Standard Oil Rockefeller is obviously in here uh Vanderbilt's Transportation network is obviously going to be in here as well and of course Carnegie's..."

"Telegraph to oil to iron and then steel as well and that's to say nothing of the bunch of the bankers and the financiers uh that are in this book and that are building great wealth at this point in Am..."

"with the railroad company and his relationship with Thomas Scott and so this is where Carnegie makes his first investment in oil Carnegie was approached by a group of businessmen who persuaded him to ..."

"pause there before we go into the expansion of his of young Andrew Carnegie's Empire think about it he's look at the the different Industries he's already touched right he learned how to be a telegrap..."

"generate the most amount of wealth and so it says uh perhaps it made more sense to end the scattershot approach to accumulating wealth and put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket th..."

"move on iron rails but the cars and the engines were built of iron as was the Machinery that loaded and serviced them as as were the new bridges that span the rivers and chasms of the America West if ..."

"is going to start his business this business becomes one of the most valuable businesses that has ever been created that is insane to think about so it says the depression actually played into Carnegi..."

"foundry's production line as a result when the union iron or Keystone Bridge both companies that he owned and controlled submitted a bid on a project there was no guesswork involved if Carnegie chose ..."

"they all do this uh they were able to charge less lowering the price of the customer got them more customers in this like virtuous competes repeats over and over again I think Jeff Bezos said this bea..."

"they're going to like they're I guess a cartel is the way to think about this and so he's approached by this group and they're like okay like let's all get together and we'll give you 9% of you know t..."

"with the principal manufacturer of coke one Henry Clay Frick so I covered the early life of Henry Clay Frick on actually read a biography it's all the way back on Founders episode number 75 um but I w..."

"kooch so here Thomas melon can only go on his judgment do I find this person trustworthy am I going to have is he going toay back the loan he decided yes he approved the loan before the first new oven..."

"was Fielding more demand for his Coke than he could possibly handle and so carneg is obviously very very impressed by Frick Carnegie had done his homework on Frick and was impressed with what he found..."

"early on Carnegie now owned 50% of the frick Coke company uh the original Frick Associates hold held 33% and Frick held the remaining 16% and the crazy thing is at this time Frick's company's actually..."