Hidden Treasures
eBook - PDF

Hidden Treasures

Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail

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  1. 454 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Hidden Treasures

Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail

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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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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Quotations
  6. Daniel Drew
  7. Russell Sage
  8. Cornelius Vanderbilt
  9. Amos Lawrence
  10. Horace B. Claflin
  11. William E. Dodge
  12. Jay Gould
  13. John Wannamaker
  14. Alexander T. Stewart
  15. Nicholas Longworth
  16. Robert Bonner
  17. William G. Fargo
  18. James C. Flood
  19. John W. Mackay
  20. James C. Fair
  21. Horace Greeley
  22. Thurlow Weed
  23. George W. Childs
  24. James Gordon Bennett
  25. Phineas T. Barnum
  26. Mathew Vassar
  27. John Jacob Astor
  28. Potter Palmer
  29. James Harper
  30. Henry Disston
  31. Peter Cooper
  32. George Law
  33. Darius O. Mills
  34. Stephen Girard
  35. Moses Taylor
  36. William C. Ralston
  37. George Peabody
  38. William W. Corcoran
  39. Nathan Mayer Rothschild
  40. John Adams
  41. Thomas Jefferson
  42. John Marshall
  43. Alexander Hamilton
  44. James Madison
  45. James Monroe
  46. Lewis Cass
  47. John C. Calhoun
  48. Robert Y. Hayne
  49. Daniel Webster
  50. Andrew Jackson
  51. Thomas H. Benton
  52. Henry Clay
  53. Martin Van Buren
  54. Stephen Arnold Douglass
  55. Abbott Lawrence
  56. Alexander H. Stephens
  57. Millard Fillmore
  58. William H. Seward
  59. Horatio Seymour
  60. Winfield S. Hancock
  61. George B. Mcclellan
  62. Ulysses Simpson Grant
  63. Stonewall Jackson
  64. General Robert E. Lee
  65. Henry Wilson
  66. Abraham Lincoln
  67. Edward Everett
  68. Edwin M. Stanton
  69. Andrew Johnson
  70. James A. Garfield
  71. Chester A. Arthur
  72. John A. Logan
  73. James G. Blaine
  74. Samuel J. Tilden
  75. Henry Ward Beecher
  76. GREAT INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS
  77. James Watt
  78. George Stephenson
  79. Benjamin Franklin
  80. Eli Whitney
  81. Robert Fulton
  82. Elias Howe, Jr.
  83. Isaac M. Singer
  84. Richard M. Hoe
  85. Charles Goodyear
  86. Prof S. F. B. Morse
  87. Cyrus W. Field
  88. George M. Pullman
  89. Thomas A. Edison
  90. WHY SOME SUCCEED WHILE OTHERS FAIL
  91. Success and Failure
  92. Concentration of Effort
  93. Self-Reliance
  94. Economy of Time
  95. Causes of Failure