How To Succeed, By Orison Swett Marden, published in 1896.

How To Succeed (1896)

Book Facts... How To Succeed

Author:	Orison Swett Marden
Publisher:	The Christian Herald
Year Published:	1896
Number of Pages:	332
Number of Chapters:	Twenty-Five
Sub-Title:	Stepping Stones To Fame And Fortune

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Selected Quotes From: How To Succeed

"Don�t think you have no chance in life because you have no capital to begin with. Most of the rich men of today began poor."
"What a fortune he possesses in the marvelous mechanism of his body and mind. It is individual effort that has accomplished everything worth accomplishing in this world."
"Money to start with is only a crutch, which, if any misfortune knocks it from under you, would only make your fall all the more certain."
- Orison Swett Marden

How To Succeed
Chapter Titles Include:

1. First, Be A Man
2. Seize Your Opportunity
3. How Did He Begin?
4. Out Of Place
5. What Shall I Do?
6. Will You Pay The Price?
7. Foundation Stones
8. The Conquest Of Obstacles
9. Dead In Earnest
10. To Be Great, Concentrate
11. At Once
12. Thoroughness
13. Trifles
14. Courage
15. Will Power
16. Guard Your Weak Point
17. Stick
18. Save
19. Live Upward
20. Sand
21. Above Rubies
22. Moral Sunshine
23. Hold Up Your Head
24. Books And Success
25. Riches Without Wings

Excerpt From the Self-Help Classic... How To Succeed

"TAKE TWO ACORNS from the same tree, as nearly alike as possible; plant one on a hill by itself, and the other in the dense forest, and watch them grow. The oak standing alone is exposed to every storm. Its roots reach out in every direction, clutching the rocks and piercing deep in to the earth. Every rootlet lends itself to steady the growing giant, as if in anticipation of fierce conflict with the elements.

Sometimes its upward growth seems checked for years, but all the while it has been expending its energy in pushing a root across a large rock to gain a firmer anchorage. Then it shoots proudly aloft again, prepared to defy the hurricane.

The acorn planted in the deep forest shoots up a weak, slender sapling. Shielded by its neighbors, it feels no need of spreading its roots far and wide for support.

Take two boys, as nearly alike as possible. Place one in the country away from the hothouse culture and refinements of the city, with only the district school, the Sunday school, and a few books. Remove wealth and props of every kind; and, if he has the right kind of material in him, he will thrive. Every obstacle overcome lends him strength for the next conflict. If he falls, he rises with more determination than before.

Life a rubber ball, the harder the obstacle he meets the higher the rebounds. Obstacles and opposition are but apparatus of the gymnasium in which the fibers of his manhood are developed. He compels respect and recognition from those who have ridiculed his poverty.

Put the other boy in a Vanderbilt family. Give him French and German nurses; gratify every wish. Place him under the tutelage of great masters and send him to Harvard. Give him thousands a year for spending money, and let him travel extensively.

The two boys meet. The city lad is ashamed of his country brother. The plain threadbare clothes, hard hands, tawny face, and awkward manner of the country boy make sorry contrast with the genteel appearance of the other.

They meet again as men, but how changed! It is as easy to distinguish the sturdy, self-made man from the one who has been propped up all his life by wealth, position, and family influence, as it is for the shipbuilder to tell the difference between the plank from the rugged mountain oak and one from the sapling of the forest."

- Orison Swett Marden

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