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CLEVELAND, OHIO: MOSES, LEWIS & CO.
1888.
Copyright, 1887.
BY WRIGHT, MOSES & LEWIS.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS.
[Preface.]
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[Introduction.]
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[Quotations.]
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[Daniel Drew.]
[Russell Sage.]
[Cornelius Vanderbilt.]
[Amos Lawrence.]
[Horace B. Claflin.]
[William E. Dodge.]
[Jay Gould.]
[John Wannamaker.]
[Alexander T. Stewart.]
[Nicholas Longworth.]
[Robert Bonner.]
[William G. Fargo.]
[James C. Flood.]
[John W. MacKay.]
[James C. Fair.]
[Horace Greeley.]
[Thurlow Weed.]
[George W. Childs.]
[James Gordon Bennett.]
[Phineas T. Barnum.]
[Mathew Vassar.]
[John Jacob Astor.]
[Potter Palmer.]
[James Harper.]
[Henry Disston.]
[Peter Cooper]
[George Law.]
[Darius O. Mills.]
[Stephen Girard.]
[Moses Taylor.]
[William C. Ralston.]
[George Peabody.]
[William W. Corcoran.]
[Nathan Mayer Rothschild.]
[John Adams.]
[Thomas Jefferson.]
[John Marshall.]
[Alexander Hamilton.]
[James Madison.]
[James Monroe.]
[Lewis Cass.]
[John C. Calhoun.]
[Robert Y. Hayne.]
[Daniel Webster.]
[Andrew Jackson.]
[Thomas H. Benton.]
[Henry Clay.]
[Martin Van Buren.]
[Stephen Arnold Douglass.]
[Abbott Lawrence.]
[Alexander H. Stephens.]
[Millard Fillmore.]
[William H. Seward.]
[Horatio Seymour.]
[Winfield S. Hancock.]
[George B. McClellan.]
[Ulysses Simpson Grant.]
[Stonewall Jackson.]
[General Robert E. Lee.]
[Henry Wilson.]
[Abraham Lincoln.]
[Edward Everett.]
[Edwin M. Stanton.]
[Andrew Johnson.]
[James A. Garfield.]
[Chester A. Arthur.]
[John A. Logan.]
[James G. Blaine.]
[Samuel J. Tilden.]
[Henry Ward Beecher.]
[James Watt.]
[George Stephenson.]
[Benjamin Franklin.]
[Eli Whitney.]
[Robert Fulton.]
[Elias Howe, Jr.]
[Isaac M. Singer.]
[Richard M. Hoe.]
[Charles Goodyear.]
[Prof. S. F. B. Morse.]
[Cyrus W. Field.]
[George M. Pullman.]
[Thomas A. Edison.]
Why Some Succeed And While Others Fail.
[Success And Failure.]
[Concentration of Effort.]
[Self-reliance.]
[Economy of Time.]
[Causes of Failure.]
[PREFACE.]
Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began life poor. As our title indicates, we shall endeavor to show "why some succeed while others fail." Knowing that everybody desires success, and recognizing the old adage, "Example is the best of teachers," we have selected representative characters from the multitude of successful men who have climbed the ladder of success, beginning at the bottom round. These we have followed from childhood to manhood, dwelling at length on the traits of character that have made them so rich and successful, believing that a careful study will convince all that the proverbial "luck" had little to do with it. On the contrary, one is taught those lessons of self-helpfulness and self-reliance which are so essential to success in life's struggles. It is fearful to think how many of our young people are drifting without an aim in life, and do not comprehend that they owe mankind their best efforts. We are all familiar with the parable of the slothful servant who buried his talent—all may profit by his example. To those who would succeed, we respectfully present this volume.