How They Succeeded

by Orison Swett Marden

23 chapters7h 31mEnglish1901

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Success! Alluring, fascinating, informative. Why are some people successful while others languish on the scrap heap of life? Hard work? Luck? Nepotism? Genius? Here we have the Life Stories of Successful Men (and Women) Told by Themselves. 22 people who made their mark on their chosen field, some of whom have gone down in history... Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie. Others were no less successful in their day, but whose names have not made their mark to such an extent. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Chapters (22)

1Marshall Field

826

2Bell Telephone Talk -- Hints on Success by Alexander G. Bell

1248

3Why the American People Like Helen Gould

1771

4Philip D. Armour's Business Career

1768

5What Miss Mary E. Proctor Did to Popularize Astronomy

665

6The Boyhood Experience of President Schurman of Cornell

745

7The Story of John Wanamaker

2049

8Giving up Five Thousand a Year to Become a Sculptor

708

9Questions and Answers Business Pointers by Darius Ogden Mills

687

10Nordica: What it Takes to Become a Queen of Song

1746

11He Worked to Secure a Foot-Hold William Dean Howells

971

12John D. Rockefeller

2167

13The Author of Battle Hymn of the Republic and Her Views of Education for Young Women

975

14A Talk with Edison Dramatic Incidents in his Early Life

1417

15A Fascinating Story by General Lew Wallace

762

16Carnegie as a Metal Worker

1882

17John B. Herreshoff The Yacht Builder

1877

18A Successful Novelist: Fame After Fifty Practical Hints to Young Authors, by Amelia E. Barr

813

19How Theodore Thomas Brought the People Nearer to Music

1017

20John Burroughs at Home: The Hut on the Hill Top

835

21Vreeland's Romantic Story How He Came to Transport a Million Passengers a Day

1302

22How James Whitcomb Riley Came to be Master of the Hoosier Dialect

749

How They Succeeded

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