Little Visits with Great Americans: Anecdotes, Life Lessons and Interviews. Эндрю Карнеги

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       HOW TO ATTRACT ATTENTION.

       CARNEGIE AND THE SLEEPING-CAR.

       THE MARK OF A MILLIONAIRE.

       A FORTUNATE LAND PURCHASE.

       THE HOMESTEAD STEEL WORKS.

       A STRENGTHENING POLICY.

       MR. CARNEGIE’S PHILANTHROPY.

       CARNEGIE’S VIEWS ON THRIFT.

       “THE MISFORTUNE OF BEING RICH MEN’S SONS.”

       IV A Good Shoemaker Becomes Detroit’s Best Mayor and Michigan’s Greatest Governor.

       HOW HE BECAME MAYOR OF DETROIT.

       A GREAT CHANGE PROPHESIED.

       HE WAS NOT A DEMAGOGUE.

       GOVERNOR PINGREE’S LUXURIOUS HOME.

       V Determined not to Remain Poor, a Farmer Boy Becomes a Merchant Prince

       HIS PARENTS HELPED HIM.

       ALWAYS INTERESTED IN COMMERCE.

       HIS PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS.

       PERSEVERANCE, MR. FIELD’S ESSENTIAL TRAIT.

       QUALITIES THAT MAKE FOR SUCCESS.

       VI Honesty, the Foundation of a Great Merchant’s Career

       A STANCH INHERITANCE.

       HE WAS ALWAYS PROMPT.

       STEP BY STEP UPWARD.

       “WAKING UP” A TOWN.

       SEIZING OPPORTUNITIES.

       ECONOMICAL WAYS.

       CHRISTIAN PHILANTHROPIST.

       HIS ADVICE TO YOUNG MERCHANTS.

       CONDITIONS THEN AND NOW.

       THE VALUE OF “PUSH.”

       VII A British Boy Wins Fortune and Title by American Business Methods.

       SIR THOMAS WAS WON.

       WHEN HE BORROWED FIVE CENTS.

       AMERICAN BUSINESS METHODS GAVE HIM HIS START.

       HE OWNS NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED STORES.

       CHANCES FOR YOUNG MEN TO-DAY.

       “THRIFT IS THE TRUE SECRET OF SUCCESS.”

       VIII A Self-made Man who Strives to Give others a Chance

       AN AGE OF OPPORTUNITIES.

       THE FIRST HUNDRED DOLLARS.

       TRAITS OF INFLUENTIAL MEN.

       SOME SECRETS OF SUCCESS.

       THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER.

       A WORD ABOUT CHEAP HOTELS.

       IX Thrift, the Secret of a Fortune Built in a Single Lifetime.

       HE BEGAN AS A GROCERY CLERK.

       NO LUCK IN HIS ACHIEVEMENT.

      

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