How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves

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by  Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924

HOW
THET SUCCEEDED

HOW
THET SUCCEEDED
LIFE STORIES SUCCESSFUL
of
MEN TOLD THEMSELVES
by
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
By
EDITOR of "SUCCESS." AUTHOR of " WINNING
+
OUT," ETC., ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY
BOSTON *
COPYRIGHT,
BY
1901,
L OTH R O P
PUBLISHING
COMPANY.
ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I
PAGE
MARSHALL FIELD
19
" "
Determined not to remain poor 20
" Saved my Earnings, and Attended strictly to
Business" 20
"I always thought I would be a Merchant".... 21
An Opportunity 21
A Cash basis 23
" Every Purchaser must be enabled to feel se-
"
cure 24
The Turning Point 25
Qualities that make for Success 27
A
College Education and Business 27
CHAPTER
II
BELL TELEPHONE TALK
30
HINTS ON SUCCESS BY ALEXANDERG. BELL.
A Night Worker 30
The Subject of Success 31
Perseverance applied to a Practical End 32
Concentration of Purpose 34
Young American Geese 36
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Contents
BELL TELEPHONE TALK
(Continued): PAGE
Unhelpful Reading 36
Inventions in America 37
The Orient 38
Environment and Heredity 38
Professor Bell's Life Story 40
"I will make the World Hear it" 41
CHAPTER
III
WHY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LIKE
HELEN GOULD
44
A
Face Full of Character 45
Her Ambitions and Aims 45
A Most Charming Charity 46
Her Practical Sympathy for the Less Favored.. 49
Personal Attention to an Unselfish Service 52
Her Views upon Education 55
The Evil of Idleness 56
Her Patriotism 56
"Our Helen" 59
"America" 60
Unheralded Benefactions 60
Her Personality 63
CHAPTER IV
PHILIP D. ARMOUR'S BUSINESS CAREER.. 65 9^{
Footing it to California 68
The Ditch 70
He enters the Grain Market 71
Mr. Armour's Acute Perception of the Commer-
cial Conditions for Building up a Great
Business 72
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