How They Succeeded
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

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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0:00:24 Introductory Note
0:02:33 Section 1 Marshall Field
0:16:11 Section 2 Bell Telephone Talk -- Hints on Success by Alexander G. Bell
0:36:55 Section 3 Why the American People Like Helen Gould
1:06:13 Section 4 Philip D. Armour's Business Career
1:35:45 Section 5 What Miss Mary E. Proctor Did to Popularize Astronomy
1:46:46 Section 6 The Boyhood Experience of President Schurman of Cornell
1:59:11 Section 7 The Story of John Wanamaker
2:33:12 Section 8 Giving up Five Thousand a Year to Become a Sculptor
2:44:55 Section 9 Questions and Answers Business Pointers by Darius Ogden Mills
2:56:19 Section 10 Nordica: What it Takes to Become a Queen of Song
3:25:20 Section 11 He Worked to Secure a Foot-Hold William Dean Howells
3:41:27 Section 12 John D. Rockefeller
4:17:33 Section 13 The Author of Battle Hymn of the Republic and Her Views of Education for Young Women
4:33:48 Section 14 A Talk with Edison Dramatic Incidents in his Early Life
4:57:18 Section 15 A Fascinating Story by General Lew Wallace
5:10:03 Section 16 Carnegie as a Metal Worker
5:41:18 Section 17 John B. Herreshoff The Yacht Builder
6:12:33 Section 18 A Successful Novelist: Fame After Fifty Practical Hints to Young Authors, by Amelia E. Barr
6:26:04 Section 19 How Theodore Thomas Brought the People Nearer to Music
6:42:50 Section 20 John Burroughs at Home: The Hut on the Hill Top
6:56:49 Section 21 Vreeland's Romantic Story How He Came to Transport a Million Passengers a Day
7:18:28 Section 22 How James Whitcomb Riley Came to be Master of the Hoosier Dialect