Why not do it every week ?" This spirit explains the success of the Carnegie Company in outdistancing all its competitors and gaining a worldwide preeminence for the Pittsburgh district.

But Carnegie did not make the mistake of capitalizing all this prosperity for himself; his real greatness as an American business man consists in the fact that he liberally shared the profits with his associates.

Ruthless he might be in appropriating their last ounce of energy, yet he rewarded the successful men with golden partnerships.

Nothing delighted Carnegie more than to see the man whom he had lifted from a puddler's furnace develop into a millionaire.
Henry Phipps, still living at the age of seventy-eight, was the only one of Carnegie's early associates who remained with him to the end.

Like many of the others, Phipps had been Carnegie's playmate as a boy, so far as any of them, in those early days, had opportunity to play; like all his contemporaries also, Phipps had been wretchedly poor, his earliest business opening having been as messenger boy for a jeweler.