♡ Title : [How They Succeeded] - by Orison Swett Marden

♡ Topics : librivox, audiobooks, success, work, fame

♡ Summary : 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

♡ Title and length
1 00 - Introductory Note - 02:16
2 01 - Marshall Field - 13:46
3 02 - Bell Telephone Talk -- Hints on Success by Alexander G. Bell - 20:48
4 03 - Why the American People Like Helen Gould - 29:31
5 04 - Philip D. Armour's Business Career - 29:28
6 05 - What Miss Mary E. Proctor Did to Popularize Astronomy - 11:05
7 06 - The Boyhood Experience of President Schurman of Cornell - 12:25
8 07 - The Story of John Wanamaker - 34:09
9 08 - Giving up Five Thousand a Year to Become a Sculptor - 11:48
10 09 - Questions and Answers Business Pointers by Darius Ogden Mills - 11:27
11 10 - Nordica: What it Takes to Become a Queen of Song - 29:06
12 11 - He Worked to Secure a Foot-Hold William Dean Howells - 16:11
13 12 - John D. Rockefeller - 36:07
14 13 - The Author of Battle Hymn of the Republic and Her Views of Education for Young Women - 16:15
15 14 - A Talk with Edison Dramatic Incidents in his Early Life - 23:37
16 15 - A Fascinating Story by General Lew Wallace - 12:42
17 16 - Carnegie as a Metal Worker - 31:22
18 17 - John B. Herreshoff The Yacht Builder - 31:17
19 18 - A Successful Novelist: Fame After Fifty Practical Hints to Young Authors, by Amelia E. Barr - 13:33
20 19 - How Theodore Thomas Brought the People Nearer to Music - 16:57
21 20 - John Burroughs at Home: The Hut on the Hill Top - 13:55
22 21 - Vreeland's Romantic Story How He Came to Transport a Million Passengers a Day - 21:42
23 22 - How James Whitcomb Riley Came to be Master of the Hoosier Dialect - 12:29

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