ine years later Carngie would begin to honor his fathers idealism. J. Pierpont Morgan, a powerful banker, bought Carngie out. Carngie was now one of the richest men in the world and started a new career. He felt that millonares had a duty to distribute their wealth while they were still alive . He gave money to colleges, built 3000 libarys across the country. He funded artists, writers, an a insitusute to promote peace, and another to improve teaching. Carngie the man who as born poor and aquired millions of dollars , did not desire to die rich he wrote that the man who dies thus rich, dies disgraced. Before he died, Carngie asked his private secretary, how much do you say I have given away, Poynton. She replied three hundred and twenty four million, six hundred and fifty seven thousand three hundred and ninety nine dollars. He exclaimed good heavens, where did I get all that money...
