Little Visits with Great Americans, or Success Ideals and How to Attain Them

by Orison Swett Marden

Personal interviews with the wealthiest and most influential men in America. In 1897 Orison Swett Marden founded Success Magazine, and interviewed famous men and women with the goal of discovering the turning points in their careers and the keys to their success. Those interviews were published in this book in 1903.

Introduction —»

Invention

Chapter 1, Thomas A. Edison —»

Chapter 2, Hiram Stevens Maxim —»

Manufacture

Chapter 3, Andrew Carnegie —»

Chapter 4, Charles M. Schwab —»

Commerce

Chapter 5, Marshall Field —»

Chapter 6, John Wanamaker —»

Chapter 7, Sir Thomas J. Lipton —»

Finance

Chapter 8, Darius Ogden Mills —»

Chapter 9, Russell Sage —»

Chapter 10, Lyman Gage —»

Chapter 11, Cornelius Vanderbilt —»

Transportation

Chapter 12, Colonel Robert C. Clowry —»

Chapter 13, Herbert H. Vreeland —»

Labor

Chapter 14, Samuel Gompers —»

Public Life

Chapter 15, Theodore Roosevelt —»

Chapter 16, General Nelson A. Miles —»

Chapter 17, Ambassador Joseph H. Choate —»

Chapter 18, Chauncey M. Depew —»

Chapter 19, Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver —»

Chapter 20, Thomas Collier Platt —»

Chapter 21, Tom L. Johnson —»

Education and Literature

Chapter 22, Jacob Gould Schurman —»

Chapter 23, James Whitcomb Riley —»

Chapter 24, Edwin Markham —»

Chapter 25, Ella Wheeler Wilcox —»

Chapter 26, William Dean Howells —»

Chapter 27, General Lew Wallace —»

Chapter 28, Mrs. Burton Harrison —»

Art

Chapter 29, Edwin Austin Abbey —»

Chapter 30, Alice Barber Stephens —»

Chapter 31, Frederic Remington —»

Chapter 32, Homer C. Davenport —»

Chapter 33, Charles Dana Gibson —»

Chapter 34, Frederick Burr Opper —»

Chapter 35, F. Wellington Ruckstuhl —»

Chapter 36, Henry Merwin Shrady —»

Amusement

Chapter 37, Marshall P. Wilder —»

Chapter 38, Richard Mansfield —»

Chapter 39, John Philip Sousa —»

Philanthropy

Chapter 40, Helen Keller —»

Chapter 41, John Burroughs —»

Chapter 42, Helen Miller Gould —»

Chapter 43, Nathan Strauss —»

Divinity

Chapter 44, Dr. Russell H. Conwell —»

Chapter 45, Frank W. Gunsaulus, D.D. —»

Chapter 46, Robert Collyer —»

Success Maxims

Chapter 47, Success Maxims —»