How to Succeed : Or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune: A Classic Guide to Success, Character, and Personal Achievement
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Overview
Orison Swett Marden's How to Succeed: Or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune presents a disciplined and character-driven approach to achievement, grounded in the principles of New Thought and practical self-development. Drawing on biography, moral instruction, and anecdotal illustration, Marden outlines the habits and attitudes he believed essential to personal advancement and enduring success.
Rather than offering shortcuts, the work emphasizes perseverance, integrity, and the cultivation of inner strength. Marden situates success within a broader framework of purpose and self-mastery, reflecting the late nineteenth-century belief that thought, character, and disciplined effort shape both circumstance and outcome. His approach bridges motivational writing and moral philosophy, presenting achievement as both a personal and ethical pursuit.
How to Succeed remains a representative work within early self-help literature and the New Thought tradition. It continues to be read for its clear articulation of foundational success principles and its influence on later writers in the field of personal development and applied philosophy.
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- ISBN-13: 9781604590050
- ISBN-10: 160459005X
- Publisher: Sublime Books
- Publish Date: August 2007
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.32 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.46 pounds
- Page Count: 148
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