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Little Visits With Great Americans (1904)

Book Facts... Little Visits With Great Americans

Author:

Orison Swett Marden

Publisher:

The Success Company

Year Published:

1904

Number of Pages:

596

Number of Chapters:

Forty-Six

Sub-Title:

Success Ideals And How To Attain Them

Read on and learn more about this great classic:

Quotes From: Little Visits With Great Americans

"If a man can write a better book preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door"
- Emerson

"The tissue of the life to be
We weave with colors all our own
And in the field of destiny
We reap as we have sown."
- Whittier

"The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one man and another – between the weak and powerful, the great and insignificant, is energy – invincible determination – a purpose once formed, and then death or victory."

- Fowell Buxton



Little Visits With Great Americans
Chapter Titles: (Interviews With The Following Leaders In Their Field)

1-5. Thomas Alva Edison; Hiram Stevens Maxim; Andrew Carnegie; Charles Michael Schwab; Marshall Field
6-10. John Wanamaker; Sir Thomas Lipton; Darius Ogden Mills; Russell Sage; Lyman Judson Gage
11-15. Cornelius Vanderbilt; Robert C. clowry; Herbert H. Vreeland; Samuel Gompers; Theodore Roosevelt
16-20. Nelson A Miles; Joseph H. Choate; Chauncey M. Depew; Jonathan P. Dolliver; Thomas C. Platt
21-25. Tom L. Johnson; Jacob Gould Schurman; James Whitcomb Riley; Edwin markham; Ella Wheeler Wilcox
26-30. William Dean Howells; General Lew Wallace; Mrs. Burton Harrison; Edwin Austin Abbey, Alice Barber Stephens
31-35. Frederic Remington; Homer Davenport; Charles Dana Gibson; Frederick Burr Opper; F. Wellington Ruckstuhl
36-40. Henry Merwin Shrady; Marshall P. Wilder; Richard Mansfield; John Philip Sousa; Helen Keller
41-45. John Burroughs; Helen Miller Gould; Nathan Strauss; Russell H. Conwell; Frank W. Gunsaulus
46. Robert Collyer


Excerpt From The Introduction of...
Little Visits With Great Americans

"THE EDITORS OF LITTLE VISITS WITH GREAT AMERICANS have been for many years in quest of the elements of a grand, healthy, symmetrical, successful man – the ideal man. They knew at the beginning that it would be impossible to find any one man who would illustrate all these points of perfection, who would combine in perfect degree all the success qualities, but they have found in scores of men and women who have achieved something worthwhile qualities which, put together, would make a composite ideal person, a person who, in the evolution of civilization, will, perhaps, sometime be possible.

Usually, in men who have risen to eminence, some one quality or virtue shiens conspicuous, often accompanied with defects, perhaps great weakness, which, to gain the lesson, we must ignore.

The editors have interviewed successful men and women in the various vocations, trying to get at the secret of their success, the reason for their advancement. These varied life stories will give the reader the material for constructing the composite character – the ideal man or woman – one that shall combine all the best virtues and qualities, whose imitation will help to insure a useful, profitable and honored life. This composite man will not be a one-sided specialist. He will not be a man cursed with any great weakness. He will be a man raised to the highest power, symmetrical, self-centered, ever master of himself.

A determination to succeed, once formed, and a congenial career once chosen and entered upon, there commences a process of character-building by the formation of life habits. These solidify into personal characteristics, the varying assortment of which in the individual constitutes what we call his personality.

Character, it has been said wisely, is the result of choices. It appears again and again in the reminiscences of those who have succeeded, that from time to time they have deliberately chosen a course of action which by force of habit has become a personal characteristic, and has earned them national, if not world-wide, reputation.

We think the reader will find within the pages of Little Vists With Great Americans - the composite character, the all-round success. We have tried to show that there is something better than making a living, and that is making a life – that a man or woman may make millions and be a failure still

We have shown that a man to succeed must be greater than his calling; that he must overtop his vocation. We have tried to teach that the really successful man must be greater than the book he writes, than the patient he treats, than the goods he sells, than the cause he pleads in the courts – that manhood is above all titles, greater than any career."

- Author - Orison Swett Marden
Little Visits With Great Americans


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