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The series focuses on the lives of Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford. It tells how their industrial innovations and business empires revolutionized modern society. The series is directed by Patrick Reams and Ruán Magan and is narrated by Campbell Scott. It averaged 2.6 million total ...
In 1957, Fortune magazine developed a list of the seventy-six wealthiest Americans, which was published in many American newspapers. [6] Jean Paul Getty, when asked his reaction to being named wealthiest American and whether he was worth a billion dollars, said, "You know, if you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars" and then added, "But remember, a billion dollars isn't ...
According to Entrepreneur, immigrant and industrialist Andrew Carnegie sold his Carnegie Steel company to J.P. Morgan for $480 million in 1901, making him the richest person in the world in the ...
Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. ... In 1901, U.S. Steel, then controlled by J. Pierpont Morgan, having bought Andrew Carnegie's steel assets, ...
The motivation behind Carnegie giving away his vast wealth was his belief that “a man who dies rich dies disgraced.” John D. Rockefeller Estimated wealth in today’s terms: $400 billion
John Pierpont Morgan was a banker and America's most important financial deal maker. He had observed how efficiently Carnegie produced profits. ... 77#4, pp. 703 ...
What eventually became the largest corporation in the world was created by J.P. Morgan and others who financed the merger of Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Co. with rival Federal Steel at the ...
The Rockefeller family (/ ˈ r ɒ k ə f ɛ l ər / ROCK-ə-fell-ər) is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brothers John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr., primarily through Standard Oil (the predecessor of ...