Net Worth: $310 Billion

About Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie was a an American industrialist and philanthropist with an estimated net worth of $310 billion. Carnegie is one of the most Influential people of the 18th century who founded Carnegie and Steel. He amassed thousands of employees in the workforce working in his steel empire that warred over rights to wages for many years of his rising in the industry. By the late 1800’s Carnegie began to produce more steel than all of Great Briton. He cut down labour costs, reduced dividends and reinvested them into his empire to grow. He stood the world in his American industrial empire and made history.