Orison Swett Marden(1850-1924),founder of Success Magazine,is also considered to be the founder of the modern success movement in America.He certainly bridged the gap between the old,narrow notions of success and the new,more comprehensive models made popular by best-selling authors such as Napolean Hill,Clement Stone,Dale Carnegie,Og mandino,Earl Nightingale,Norman Vincent Peale and today's authors Stephen R.covey,Anthony Robbins and Brian Tracy

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. Orison Swett Marden Such gems of knowledge are aplenty in the author's books and these books were written long before the modern Gurus descended! 'Every Man builds his own world,makes his own atmosphere.He can fill it with difficulties,fears,doubts and despair and gloom,so that the whole life will be influenced to gloom and disaster:or he can keep the atmosphere clear,transparent and sweet by dispelling every gloomy,envious malicious thought.

Hold the enduring,the immortal thought in the mind,and discord will disappear.'

This is the train of thought running through out this Book,seeking in every word and every page of the Book,Investment in one's own Self.As valid today as it was seventy years back when the Book was written. We are happy to re-print the book as the first run has been sold out.