How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves" by Orison Swett Marden is a collection of autobiographical sketches, likely written in the late 19th century. This work compiles personal narratives from notable figures who have achieved significant success, capturing the essence of their journeys, challenges, and the principles that guided them. The book is aimed at inspiring readers, particularly the youth, by showcasing that diligence, integrity, and a steadfast commitment can lead to remarkable outcomes. At the start of the book, Marden introduces his motivation for compiling these stories as a means to illustrate that anyone, regardless of their beginnings, has the potential for success through character, energy, and ambition. It opens with the story of Marshall Field, a renowned merchant, who reflects on his formative years, his early struggles, and the principles he applied to achieve his goals, such as financial prudence and perseverance. This introduction not only sets the tone for the life stories that follow but also emphasizes Marden's belief in self-improvement and the transformative power of ambition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

Marshall Field

Bell Telephone talk: hints on success by Alexander G. Bell

Why the American people like Helen Gould

Philip D. Armour's business career

What Miss Mary E. Proctor did to popularize astronomy

The boyhood experience of President [Jacob Gould] Schurman of Cornell University

The story of John Wanamaker

Giving up five thousand a year to become a sculptor [F. Wellington Ruckstuhl]

Questions and answers: business pointers by Ogden Mills

[Lillian] Nordica: what it costs to become a queen of song

How he worked to secure a foot-hold: William Dean Howells

John D. Rockefeller

The author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic [Julia Ward Howe]: her views of education for young women

A talk with [Thomas A.] Edison: dramatic incidents in his early life

A fascinating story by General Lew Wallace

[Andrew] Carnegie as a metal worker

John B. Herreshoff, the yacht builder

A successful novelist: fame after fifty: practical hints to young authors, by Amelia E. Barr

How Theodore Thomas brought the people nearer to music

John Burroughs at home: the hut on the hill top

[Herbert H.] Vreeland's romantic story: how he came to transport a million passengers a day

How James Whitcomb Riley came to be master of the Hoosier dialect.

Credits:

E-text prepared by Tim Lindell, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 69.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Release date is 2020-12-16