seeSuccess Qualities.Essays,seeReading.Evening study,seeReading.“Evening,” statue,Ruckstuhl,362Example,seeSuccess Ideals.Executive ability,seeSuccess Qualities.Exercise,seeHealth.Experience,seeMethods.Explorers, biographies of,seeCareers.Failure:Began life with,Parent,464Discouragement,Ruckstuhl,363Justify failure,Choate,201“What a failure I am,”Davenport,338Fame,seeSuccess Ideals.Farming,seeCareers.Farmer’s boy,seeStart in life.Farming conditions,seeStart in life.Fidelity,seeSuccess Qualities.Finance,seeCareers.Financiers, biographies of,seeCareers.Flying machines,seeAchievements.“Force,” statue,Ruckstuhl,362Forceful,seeSuccess Qualities.Foresight,seeSuccess Qualities.Frankness,seeSuccess Qualities.Freedom,seeSuccess Ideals.French descent,seeHeredity.French Huguenots,seeHeredity.Friends,Keller,400Frugality,seeSuccess Qualities.Gameness,seeSuccess Qualities.Gas machine,seeAchievements.Genius,seeSuccess Qualities.Gift,seeBent.Goethe, bust,Ruckstuhl,364Golden Mean,seeSuccess Ideals.Golden Rule,seeMethods.Good habits,seeSuccess Qualities.Good judgment,seeSuccess Qualities.Grocery clerk,seeStart in life.Habit,seeMethods.Habits,seeHealth.Happiness,seeSuccess Ideals.Hard work,seeSuccess Qualities.“Hartranft,” statue,Ruckstuhl,364Haste,seeDangers.Health:A prime requisite,Roosevelt,181Good habits,Sage,130Habits,Platt,233Keeping healthy,Edison,34Large and strong,Maxim,40Methods of securing,Smith,456Powerful physique,Nordica,555Heeding advice,seeSuccess Qualities.Heredity:American stock,Platt,226Chip of the old block,Vanderbilt,142Dutch parentage,Edison,19French descent,Parent,465Heir to Vanderbilt millions,Vanderbilt,138Inheritance,Wanamaker,93New England annals,Choate,203New England stock,Nordica,542New England stock, French Huguenots,Depew,209Patriot and fighter by inheritance,Pingree,77Scotch blood,Loudon,479Scotch ancestors,Armour,512Scottish ancestors,Carnegie,52Spanish ancestors,Sousa,385Swiss ancestors,Keller,395Training, teaching,Armour,524United States stock,Borden,449“High Noon,” poem,Wilcox,274High school,seeEducation.High thinking,seeSuccess Ideals.Home,seeSuccess Ideals.Homestead Steel Works,seeAchievements.Home study,seeEducation.Home study,seeReading.Honesty,seeSuccess Qualities.Hours of work,seeWork.Humor,seeSuccess Qualities.Humorists, biographies of,seeCareers.Hurry,seeDangers.Idleness,seeDangers.“Ike Walton’s Prayer,”seeSuccess Ideals.Illustrating,seeCareers.Illustrators, biographies of,seeCareers.Imagination,seeSuccess Qualities.Inaction,seeDangers.Inclination,seeBent.Income,seeSuccess Ideals.Independence,seeSuccess Qualities.Individuality,seeSuccess Qualities.Indulgence,seeDangers.Industry,seeSuccess Qualities.Inexperience,seeDangers.Influence:Civilizing “bad men,”Roosevelt,184In literature,Wilcox,279Mme Maretzek, Brignola,Nordica,546Young women who become wives,Loudon,481Inheritance,seeHeredity.Initiative,seeSuccess Qualities.Inspiration,seeSuccess Qualities.Instructor,seeCareers.Integrity,seeSuccess Qualities.Intellect,seeSuccess Qualities.Interest,seeSuccess Qualities.Inventors, biographies of,seeCareers.Janitor,seeStart in life.“Joe Jefferson’s Life,”seeAnecdotes.Journalism,seeCareers.Journalists, biographies of,seeCareers.Jurists, biographies of,seeCareers.Justice,seeSuccess Qualities.Keystone Bridge Works,seeAchievements.Knowledge of different sections,Smith,459Knowledge,seeSuccess Qualities.“Laugh and the World Laughs,” poem,Wilcox,273Law,seeCareers.Laws,seeAchievements.Lawyers biographies of,seeCareers.Leaders,Herreshoff,537Leaders, industrial, biographies of,seeCareers.Leaders, political, biographies of,seeCareers.Leaders, transportation, biographies of,seeCareers.Leadership,seeSuccess Qualities.Leaning,seeBent.Lecturing,seeCareers.Lecturers, biographies of,seeCareers.Leisure time,Opper,355Libraries,seeReading.Liquors,seeHealth.Literature, influence of,seeInfluence.Literature,seeCareers.Love for humanity,Strauss,423Love your work,seeSuccess Qualities.Loyalty,seeSuccess Qualities.Luck:No such thing,Sage,127Of preparation,Choate,199Luxuries,seeDangers.Macaulay, bust,Ruckstuhl,364“Man with the Hoe,” poem,seeWork.Manhood,seeSuccess Qualities.Manliness,seeSuccess Qualities.Manufactures, biographies of,seeCareers.Mathematics,seeReading.“Mayday Morn,” painting,Abbey,317Mayoralty of Detroit,seeAchievements.Mechanics,seeBent.Mechanics,seeCareers.Memory,seeMother.Memory,seeSuccess Qualities.Merchant,seeCareers.Merchants, biographies of,seeCareers.Mercury, statue,Ruckstuhl,364Merit,seeSuccess Qualities.Messenger boy,seeStart in life.Methods:American methods,Lipton,111Apprentice system,Herreshoff,535Arbitration,Gompers,171Artists sketches,Opper,357Best known methods,Armour,520Clerical work overtime,Vreeland,155Combine books and observation,Lipton,116“Early rising,”Armour,511Early training,Gunsaulus,439Economy, discipline, system,Armour,513Edison’s day’s work,Edison,33Experience,Wanamaker,103Develop ability,Herreshoff,536Doing my best,Clowry,147Getting work before public,Wilcox,277Golden Rule,Jones,505Habit of thrift,Mills,119Habit of studying and thinking,Gompers,167High-priced men and one-man power,Vreeland,162I always carry a sketch-book,Opper,357Imitating writings of others,Howells,286In authorship,Wilcox,281In building career,Loudon,480I never worried,Pingree,75I never mapped out my life,Pingree,74I perform more services than allotted,Clowry,149I work methodically,Opper,354Literary methods,Wilcox,275Of a bandmaster,Sousa,387Of a general,Miles,190Of a merchant,Field,86Of a governor with petitioners,Pingree,72Of an artist,Remington,330Of an inventor,Maxim,50Of a sculptor,Ruckstuhl,364Of a writer,Harrison,307Of a writer,Howell,289Of composition,Sousa,389Of daily work,Edison,33Of daily work,Parent,461Of drawing cartoons,Opper,354Of early training,Depew,209Of inventing,Edison,28Of naturalist,Burroughs,411Of nature study,Burroughs,409Of railroad men,Vanderbilt,141Of promotion,Carnegie,65Of rehearsal,Mansfield,382Of the rising man,Carnegie,59Of sculpturing horses,Shrady,370Of successful men,Gage,135Preparation,Vanderbilt,143Preparation for practical pursuits,Loudon,483Rise early,Armour,522Route to success,Pingree,75Sacrifices,Dolliver,220“Save early, invest securely,”Carnegie,62Science of achievement,Lipton,12Studied to win promotion,Armour,513The true bosses,Carnegie,69To get to the top,Maxim,41To induce saving,Carnegie,65To win promotion,Carnegie,60“You strive,”Ruckstuhl,365Metropolitan Street Railway System,seeAchievements.Mind stuff,seeReading.Ministry,seeCareers.Minneapolis Tribune,seeAchievements.Misfortune,seeObstacles.Modesty,seeSuccess Qualities.Money,seeWealth.Mother:Early teaching,Platt,227Home manager,Stephens,324Influence of,Herreshoff,534Influence of mother,Markham,267Interest and care of,Field,82Memory of home,Johnson,234Select a good mother,Herreshoff,533Should study each child,Herreshoff,538Strict, but very tender,Platt,226Tribute to,Herreshoff,539“Mr. Dinkelspiel,”seeAchievements.Musicians, biographies of,seeCareers.Nature, love of,Burroughs,410Nature study,Burroughs,409New England stock,seeHeredity.Newsboy,seeStart in life.New York, alone in,seeStart in life.New York University,Gould,419New York University,Conwell,431Night study,seeReading.Novelists, biographies of,seeCareers.Observation,seeSuccess Qualities.Obstacles:Blindness,Herreshoff,539Cost of distinction,Nordica,557Crippled,Wilder,373Deaf, dumb and blind,Keller,396Delicate health,Roosevelt,181Disappointment,Davenport,336Fire of 1871,Field,86Glorious to be barred,Riley,259Misfortune, advantage of,Conwell,426Telegraph was new,Clowry,147Ohio, iron bridge across,seeAchievements.Ohio Wesleyan Seminary,Gunsaulus,434Operas and marches,seeAchievements.Opportunity:A chance for all,Carnegie,58American new possessions,Depew,216Ample,Jones,509Better, larger,Armour,512Better than ever,Herreshoff,537Chances of rising,Herreshoff,537Come to all,Choate,200Come to every one,Strauss,423Commercial better than ever,Clowry,151Commercial life heavily handicapped,Jones,508Conditions more favorable,Wanamaker,105Could start anew and win,Lipton,111Countless things to do,Lipton,115East and West,Sage,128Everyone has good chance,Sage,127Everything open to youth,Howells,283For art study in America,Gibson,351,352For young preacher,Gunsaulus,439For country boys,Sage,129For great American women singers,Nordica,556For young men,Dolliver,222Great Britainvs.America,Lipton,114Greater than ever before,Armour,527Improved by education,Roosevelt,177In Canada,Borden,448In Canada,Loudon,482In Canada,Smith,456In Canadian Northwest,Blair,474In Canada for young men,Blair,473In Cuba,Van Horne,496Increased a thousandfold,Mills,120,121In realm of electricity,Edison,30In towns and cities,Roosevelt,175In Quebec,Parent,466In Quebec, Ontario, and Northwest,Van Horne,492Less than formerly,Pingree,76Make opportunity,Herreshoff,536Merit quickly rewarded,Clowry,148More than in past,Depew,207More things to do,Depew,208Moving grain and cattle,Armour,517New industries, broader fields,Sage,128No time like present,Mills,118Of a small church,Gunsaulus,435Of becoming proprietor,Herreshoff,538Our new possessions,Gunsaulus,439Plentiful,Depew,208Right men in demand,Carnegie,59Seizing opportunities,Wanamaker,98To convey water,Armour,517To create, to develop,Van Horne,488To rise quickly,Carnegie,52We are what we choose,Gunsaulus,435Ontario, opportunity in,seeOpportunity.Orators, biographies of,seeCareers.Oratory,seeCareers.Organizers, biographies of,seeCareers.Out-of-doors,seeRecreation.Overwork,seeDangers.Painstaking,seeSuccess Qualities.Painting,seeCareers.Painting,seeRecreation.Paris,Nordica,551Partnership,seeAchievements.Patience,seeSuccess Qualities.Patriotism,Gould,416Peace,seeSuccess Ideals.Peace of Mind,Burroughs,410Perseverance,seeSuccess Qualities.Persistence,seeSuccess Qualities.Philanthropists, biographies of,seeCareers.Philosophy,seeSuccess Qualities.Photograph supply store,seeStart in life.Physical strength,seeSuccess Qualities.Physique,seeHealth.Poems,seeAchievements.Poetry,seeReading.Poets, biographies of,seeCareers.Poets,seeCareers.Political honors,seeAchievements.Politics,seeCareers.Poverty,seeSuccess Qualities.Poverty:An incentive,Choate,203Purpose through poverty,Choate,202Want urges to effort,Edison,26Position,seeSuccess Ideals.Power,seeDangers.Preachers,seeCareers.Preparation,seeCareers.Preparation,seeMethod.Principles,seeSuccess Qualities.Printer’s devil,seeStart in Life.Printing office,