Law of wealth by Lucious Machiavelli.

People forget something essential about Carnegie: the man didn’t rise because he out-worked everyone. That’s the obvious part, in his era, everyone worked hard. Hard work wasn’t a personality trait, it wasn’t a flex, it wasn’t a mindset.

It was survival.

And that’s why he didn’t preach it later in life.

To him, waking up early, grinding, pushing… that wasn’t “advice.”

That was the bare minimum.

You did it because you had to not because it made you special.

Today, people glorify discipline like it’s rare. Back then, it was normal.

It didn’t make you stand out..it just kept you alive.

Carnegie’s real advantage,the one people always overlook was something deeper:

he attached himself to the right people, at the right time, in the right way.

He found older, wiser individuals who were moving upward and he made himself useful.

That was his leverage.

He worked brutally hard at the beginning, yes but only to reach what I call lift-off speed.

A plane uses maximum force during takeoff.

But once it reaches altitude, the pressure drops. It glides.

Most people never reach that altitude because they never endure that early push.

They spend their entire lives grinding at ground level.

Carnegie didn’t.

He transitioned.

He moved from sweat → strategy.

From effort → positioning.

From labor → relationships.

He figured out the real law of wealth:

Hard work gets you started.

Relationships get you rich.

Leverage keeps you rich.

If you stay stuck in the “work harder” stage, you will live your whole life on the runway.

If you learn to build the right alliances and attach yourself to the right people the way Carnegie did,you rise faster than the rest.

That is the Law of Wealth.

Not effort alone, but the evolution beyond effort.