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CHAPTER XVI. Carnegie As a Metal Worker 253

How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves · Orison Swett Marden — chapter 8 of 13 · ~82 words · public domain

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CARNEGIE AS A METAL WORKER 253

Early Work and Wages 254

Colonel Anderson’s Books 255

His First Glimpse of Paradise 256

Introduced to a Broom 258

An Expert Telegrapher 259

What Employers Think of Young Men 261

The Right Men in Demand 262

How to Attract Attention 263

Sleeping-Car Invention 264

The Work of a Millionaire 266

An Oil Farm 267

Iron Bridges 268

Homestead Steel Works 269

A Strengthening Policy 270

Philanthropy 271

“The Misfortune of Being Rich Men’s 273 Sons”

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