Andrew Carnegie

"Historians do much the same thing. As children we learned that "Andrew Carnegie built the steel industry" and "Henry Ford built the automotive industry." dustry." Carnegie and Ford were, without question, giants. But to suggest that any individual-even a giant-"built" an industry is hogwash. The most any manager can do is shape an environment that allows employees to fulfill the goals of the business."

"e drive to “do things,” lots of things, lay at the core of Raskob’s character. Raskob’s own family oft en wondered what made their pater familias tick. Like many of the great men of the second industrial revolution, including Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, Raskob was driven not by greed or avarice, or by the desire for adulation and power. Raskob’s drive, at least in its rawest form, seemed to be almost physical. He loved to be, literally, in motion, careening from place to place and from opportunity to opportunity"