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How They Succeeded

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How They Succeeded

by Orison Swett Marden

English· 07:31:56· 23 chapters
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
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Introductory Note

    02:16
  2. Chapter 2

    Marshall Field

    13:46
  3. Chapter 3

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

    20:48
  4. Chapter 4

    Why the American People Like Helen Gould

    29:31
  5. Chapter 5

    Philip D. Armour's Business Career

    29:28
  6. Chapter 6

    What Miss Mary E. Proctor Did to Popularize Astronomy

    11:05
  7. Chapter 7

    The Boyhood Experience of President Schurman of Cornell

    12:25
  8. Chapter 8

    The Story of John Wanamaker

    34:09
  9. Chapter 9

    Giving up Five Thousand a Year to Become a Sculptor

    11:48
  10. Chapter 10

    Questions and Answers Business Pointers by Darius Ogden Mills

    11:27
  11. Chapter 11

    Nordica: What it Takes to Become a Queen of Song

    29:06
  12. Chapter 12

    He Worked to Secure a Foot-Hold William Dean Howells

    16:11
  13. Chapter 13

    John D. Rockefeller

    36:07
  14. Chapter 14

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

    16:15
  15. Chapter 15

    A Talk with Edison Dramatic Incidents in his Early Life

    23:37
  16. Chapter 16

    A Fascinating Story by General Lew Wallace

    12:42
  17. Chapter 17

    Carnegie as a Metal Worker

    31:22
  18. Chapter 18

    John B. Herreshoff The Yacht Builder

    31:17
  19. Chapter 19

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

    13:33
  20. Chapter 20

    How Theodore Thomas Brought the People Nearer to Music

    16:57
  21. Chapter 21

    John Burroughs at Home: The Hut on the Hill Top

    13:55
  22. Chapter 22

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

    21:42
  23. Chapter 23

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

    12:29