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Title: Success (Second Edition)

Author: Max Aitken Beaverbrook

Release Date: March 4, 2005 [EBook #15248]

Language: English

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SUCCESS

BY LORD BEAVERBROOK

SECOND EDITION

LONDON STANLEY PAUL & CO 31 ESSEX STREET, STRAND, W.C.2

_First published in November 1921_; _Reprinted November 1921_

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

The contents of this volume originally appeared as weekly articles by
Lord Beaverbrook in the _Sunday Express_. They aroused so much interest,
and so many applications were received for copies of the various
articles, that it was decided to have them collected and printed in
volume form.

He who buys _Success_, reads and digests its precepts, will find this
inspiring volume a sure will-tonic. It will nerve him to be up and
doing. It will put such spring and go into him that he will make a
determined start on that road which, pursued with perseverance, leads
onwards and upwards to the desired goal--SUCCESS.

PREFACE

The articles embodied in this small book were written during the
pressure of many other affairs and without any idea that they would be
published as a consistent whole. It is, therefore, certain that the
critic will find in them instances of a repetition of the central idea.
This fact is really a proof of a unity of conception which justifies
their publication in a collected form. I set out to ask the question,
"What is success in the affairs of the world--how is it attained, and
how can it be enjoyed?" I have tried with all sincerity to answer the
question out of my own experience. In so doing I have strayed down many
avenues of inquiry, but all of them lead back to the central conception
of success as some kind of temple which satisfies the mind of the
ordinary practical man.

Other fields of mental satisfaction have been left entirely outside as
not germane to the inquiry.

I address myself to the youn