A Road to Prosperity - Ultimate Collection
Classic Wisdom on Wealth, Self-Mastery, Ambition, and PurposeBy Niccolò Machiavelli, Elbert Hubbard, James Allen, William Walker Atkinson, Orison Swett Marden, Benjamin Franklin, William Crosbie Hunter, Harry A. Lewis, Thorstein Veblen, Kahlil Gibran, P. T. Barnum, Marcus Aurelius, Wallace D. Wattles, Lao Tzu, Russell Conwell, Henry Harrison Brown, Florence Scovel Shinn, Émile Coué, Charles F. Haanel, B. F. Austin, Robert Collier
Length143h 55m
About this audiobook
A Road to Prosperity—Ultimate Collection assembles a remarkably broad archive of reflections on wealth, discipline, aspiration, and the moral uses of success. Its selections range from classical Stoic meditation and Taoist aphorism to Enlightenment pragmatism, Gilded Age social criticism, New Thought affirmation, and the energetic rhetoric of American self-help. Philosophical counsels on self-command stand beside practical discussions of enterprise, persuasion, habit, imagination, and public ambition, creating a productive tension between material advancement and inward flourishing. The collection brings ancient and modern voices into an unusually revealing conversation. Marcus Aurelius and Lao Tzu supply ethical and contemplative counterpoints to the entrepreneurial and motivational traditions associated with Benjamin Franklin, P. T. Barnum, Russell Conwell, and later advocates of mental discipline and positive expectation. Essays shaped by individualism, transcendental spirituality, commercial culture, and critiques of conspicuous consumption illuminate the contested history of "prosperity" as both economic condition and personal ideal. Together, these writers disclose the assumptions, promises, and limitations of success literature across cultures and centuries. Recommended for students of intellectual history, readers of self-improvement writing, and anyone interested in the cultural genealogy of ambition, this volume offers exceptional comparative breadth. It invites readers to test divergent prescriptions against one another and to consider prosperity through ethical, psychological, spiritual, and social lenses.
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GenreSelf-Help, Literary Classics
Length143 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Secret of Prosperity
2Preface
3Chapter 1: The Right To Be Rich
4Chapter 2: There is A Science of Getting Rich
5Chapter 3: Is Opportunity Monopolized?
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6Chapter 4: The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich
7Chapter 5: Increasing Life
8Chapter 6: How Riches Come to You
9Chapter 7: Gratitude
10Chapter 8: Thinking in the Certain Way
11Chapter 9: How to Use the Will
12Chapter 10: Further Use of the Will
13Chapter 11: Acting in the Certain Way
14Chapter 12: Efficient Action
15Chapter 13: Getting into the Right Business
16Chapter 14: The Impression of Increase
17Chapter 15: The Advancing Man
18Chapter 16: Some Cautions, and Concluding Observations
19Preface
20Chapter I. The Principle of Health
21Chapter II. The Foundations of Faith
22Chapter III. Life and Its Organisms
23Chapter IV. What to Think
24Chapter V. Faith
25Chapter VI. Use of the Will
26Chapter VII. Health from God
27Chapter VIII. Summary of the Mental Actions
28Chapter IX. When to Eat
29Chapter X. What To Eat
30Chapter XI. How to Eat
31Chapter XII. Hunger and Appetites
32Chapter XIII. In a Nutshell
33Chapter XIV. Breathing
34Chapter XV. Sleep
35Chapter XVI. Supplementary Instructions
36Chapter XVII. A Summary of the Science Of Being Well
37Chapter 1
38Chapter 2
39Chapter 3
40Chapter 4
41Chapter 5
42William Walker Atkinson
43The Secret of Success
44The Individual
45Spiritedness
46Latent Powers
47Soul-Force
48The Power of Desire
49The Law of Attraction
50Personal Magnetism
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