Sam Parr
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And he comes out with this, I mean, he just tries business after business after business.
He literally tries like 15 businesses.
They all fail.
He marries a woman.
He convinces the woman's parents to loan him money for this like farm or something he wants to start.
That goes bankrupt and he divorces the woman.
Yeah, like really bad.
And so in the 1930s... So did the Carnegie part happen at all?
So Carnegie died in 1919.
And in the 1930s, he comes out with this book.
He had written a bunch of books already that none of them were hits.
This particular one was a hit.
And he tells the story of meeting Andrew Carnegie and how Andrew Carnegie asked him to do this.
There's zero proof that he met Andrew Carnegie.
And Andrew Carnegie, I've read actually three biographies on him.
I got married at Carnegie Hall because I loved him so much.
The book comes out, I think, in 1929.
Carnegie has been dead for 10 years.
And David Nassau, who wrote the best biography on Carnegie, they're like, dude, Carnegie documented everything.
There's no proof that he met.