The Imperial Highway: Essays on Business and Home Life with Biographies of Self-Made Men (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Imperial Highway: Essays on Business and Home Life With Biographies of Self-Made Men

It is the pride and boast of the world that this is an age of self-made men. However humble may be the position of a man, it is within his power to reach the pinnacle of fame and fortune.

This book is full of the names of men who, without friends or money to help them, have risen by the force of their own genius to the highest positions, and their example stands out boldly to encourage and cheer Others who are struggling onward on this High way to success. The reading of such examples can not fail to stimulate us to earnest endeavors to be, like them, successful.

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