How They Succeeded

Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

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

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography

Language: English

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