Lives & Memoirs
How They Succeeded
Orison Swett Marden
1901
7h 32m
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He asked them straight out how they had done it. Marden interviewed the most successful Americans of the age, the merchants, the inventors, the financiers, and let each of them explain their own rise in their own words. A founding document of the entire self-help industry, and a genuinely fascinating record of what winners believe about winning.
Inside this audiobook
23 chapters
- 1Introductory Note2m
- 2Marshall Field14m
- 3Bell Telephone Talk -- Hints on Success by Alexander G. Bell21m
- 4Why the American People Like Helen Gould30m
- 5Philip D. Armour's Business Career29m
- 6What Miss Mary E. Proctor Did to Popularize Astronomy11m
- 7The Boyhood Experience of President Schurman of Cornell12m
- 8The Story of John Wanamaker34m
- 9Giving up Five Thousand a Year to Become a Sculptor12m
- 10Questions and Answers Business Pointers by Darius Ogden Mills11m
- 11Nordica: What it Takes to Become a Queen of Song29m
- 12He Worked to Secure a Foot-Hold William Dean Howells16m
- 13John D. Rockefeller36m
- 14The Author of Battle Hymn of the Republic and Her Views of Education for Young Women16m
- 15A Talk with Edison Dramatic Incidents in his Early Life24m
- 16A Fascinating Story by General Lew Wallace13m
- 17Carnegie as a Metal Worker31m
- 18John B. Herreshoff The Yacht Builder31m
- 19A Successful Novelist: Fame After Fifty Practical Hints to Young Authors, by Amelia E. Barr14m
- 20How Theodore Thomas Brought the People Nearer to Music17m
- 21John Burroughs at Home: The Hut on the Hill Top14m
- 22Vreeland's Romantic Story How He Came to Transport a Million Passengers a Day22m
- 23How James Whitcomb Riley Came to be Master of the Hoosier Dialect12m
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