# Empire of Business

An audiobook by Andrew Carnegie, read by LibriVox volunteers (8 h 41 min, English).

This collection of essays by Scottish-American steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie, gathered from various periodicals and first published in book form in 1902, provides insight into one of history’s richest and most notable entrepreneurs/philanthropists. Carnegie shares his outlook on the economic situation in America at the turn of the 20th century, the state of the US oil, coal, rail, and steel industries, the relationship between capital and labour, individualism vs. socialism, the public/private sector partnership, the upward climb of humanity into prosperity, the importance of land and population, trade and the best uses of tariffs, etc. He also discusses the personal rewards of hard work, integrity, thrift, how to accumulate wealth, cultivation of the lifelong reading habit, use of libraries, and other advice for achieving success. Included is one of his most famous little essays, "The Three Legged Stool". - Summary by Michele Fry

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## Chapters

1. I. The Road To Business Success - A Talk To Young Men (25:02): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_01_carnegie_64kb.mp3
2. II. The Common Interest of Labour and Capital (32:40): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_02_carnegie_64kb.mp3
3. III. Thrift As A Duty (7:30): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_03_carnegie_64kb.mp3
4. IV. How To Win Fortune (38:32): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_04_carnegie_64kb.mp3
5. V. Wealth and Its Uses (49:49): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_05_carnegie_64kb.mp3
6. VI. Anglo-American Trade Relations (22:47): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_06_carnegie_64kb.mp3
7. VII. Business, Part 1 (33:39): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_07_carnegie_64kb.mp3
8. VIII. Business Part 2 (27:57): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_08_carnegie_64kb.mp3
9. IX. The Three-Legged Stool (4:33): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_09_carnegie_64kb.mp3
10. X. Railroads, Past and Present (17:49): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_10_carnegie_64kb.mp3
11. XI. Wealth, Part 1 (35:45): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_11_carnegie_64kb.mp3
12. XII. Wealth, Part 2 (32:59): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_12_carnegie_64kb.mp3
13. XIII. Labour (44:17): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_13_carnegie_64kb.mp3
14. XIV. Wages (15:52): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_14_carnegie_64kb.mp3
15. XV. Thrift (4:59): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_15_carnegie_64kb.mp3
16. XVI. The Land (19:05): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_16_carnegie_64kb.mp3
17. XVII. Individualism versus Socialism (27:45): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_17_carnegie_64kb.mp3
18. XVIII. Variety versus Uniformity (16:20): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_18_carnegie_64kb.mp3
19. XIX. Family Relations (15:27): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_19_carnegie_64kb.mp3
20. XX. The Long March Upward (11:59): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_20_carnegie_64kb.mp3
21. XXI. My Experience with Railway Rates and Rebates (36:02): https://archive.org/download/empireofbusiness_2010_librivox/empireofbusiness_21_carnegie_64kb.mp3