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How They Succeeded

Name: How They Succeeded
Author: Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden

Read by Eitel, Wayne Cooke, Mike Atkinson, jenno, Tommy Hersant, Darrell Nobles, orangeteafox, Jenn Broda, Chad Jackson, SCvocals, TR Love, ToddHW, Michele Eaton, altrin and Night · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Introductory Note (2:16)
Marshall Field (13:46)
Bell Telephone Talk -- Hints on Success by Alexander G. Bell (20:48)
Why the American People Like Helen Gould (29:31)
Philip D. Armour's Business Career (29:28)
What Miss Mary E. Proctor Did to Popularize Astronomy (11:05)
The Boyhood Experience of President Schurman of Cornell (12:25)
The Story of John Wanamaker (34:09)
Giving up Five Thousand a Year to Become a Sculptor (11:48)
Questions and Answers Business Pointers by Darius Ogden Mills (11:27)
Nordica: What it Takes to Become a Queen of Song (29:06)
He Worked to Secure a Foot-Hold William Dean Howells (16:11)
John D. Rockefeller (36:07)
The Author of Battle Hymn of the Republic and Her Views of Education for Young Women (16:15)
A Talk with Edison Dramatic Incidents in his Early Life (23:37)
A Fascinating Story by General Lew Wallace (12:42)
Carnegie as a Metal Worker (31:22)
John B. Herreshoff The Yacht Builder (31:17)
A Successful Novelist: Fame After Fifty Practical Hints to Young Authors, by Amelia E. Barr (13:33)
How Theodore Thomas Brought the People Nearer to Music (16:57)
John Burroughs at Home: The Hut on the Hill Top (13:55)
Vreeland's Romantic Story How He Came to Transport a Million Passengers a Day (21:42)
How James Whitcomb Riley Came to be Master of the Hoosier Dialect (12:29)