
- 454 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Why is that some people's lives are filled with astounding accomplishments and achievements while others' efforts seem to fall flat? Author H.A. Lewis sets out to answer this age-old question in Hidden Treasures, Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail. Lewis adopts a case-study approach, analyzing the life stories of eminent, affluent and successful people for common themes and models.
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Topic
Personal DevelopmentSubtopic
CareersTable of contents
- Title
- 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
- 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
- GREAT INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS
- 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 WHILE OTHERS FAIL
- Success and Failure
- Concentration of Effort
- Self-Reliance
- Economy of Time
- Causes of Failure