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HOW THEY SUCCEEDED
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Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves
by
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Editor of “Success.” Author of “Winning Out,” etc., etc. ❧
Illustrated
Lothrop Publishing Company
Boston ❧
[Illustration]
Copyright,
1901, by
Lothrop Publishing Company.
All Rights Reserved
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CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
PAGE
MARSHALL FIELD 19
“Determined not to remain poor” 20
“Saved my Earnings, and Attended 20
strictly to Business”
“I always thought I would be a 21
Merchant”
An Opportunity 21
A Cash basis 23
“Every Purchaser must be enabled to 24
feel secure”
The Turning-Point 25
Qualities that make for Success 27
A College Education and Business 27