
Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail
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"Not Failure, but low aim is crime." 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...
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- Hidden Treasures
- Why Some Succeed While Others Fail. BY H. A. LEWIS.
- CONTENTS.
- PREFACE.
- INTRODUCTION.
- QUOTATIONS.
- 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
- Darius O. Mills.
- Stephen Girard.
- Moses Taylor.
- William C. Ralston.
- George Peabody.
- William W. Corcoran.
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild.
- 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.
- 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.
- Concentration of Effort.
- Self-reliance.
- Economy of Time.
- Causes of Failure.
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