6. Andrew Carnegie
At the height of his power, Andrew Carnegie pretty much controlled steel production in America. Beginning as, no joke, a telegrapher, he built a fortune that culminated in the creation of his Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Steel Company. In 1901, he sold CSC to J.P. Morgan for a reported $480 million. In today’s dollars, that inflates to $370 billion. Unfortunately, in his later years, Carnegie went soft and gave away something like 90 percent of his fortune to charities and universities. It’s hard to believe a rich guy actually had heart.
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