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Why Some Succeed While Others Fail.

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

Darius O. Mills.

Stephen Girard.

Moses Taylor.

William C. Ralston.

George Peabody.

William W. Corcoran.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild.

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.

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.

Concentration of Effort.

Self-reliance.

Economy of Time.

Causes of Failure.