# O.S.MARDEN - SUCCESS SECRETS OF GREAT AMERICANS 2: Wealth, Character & Power of Persistence of History’s Greatest Men - Orison Swett Marden

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Podcast: [SECRETS OF SUCCESS & WEALTH: Hidden Laws of Money, Power & Success](https://stenobird.com/podcast/secrets-of-success-wealth-hidden-laws-of-money-power-success-6824347)
Published: 2026-05-18T02:00:02+00:00
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(00:00:00) 1. Frederick Burr Opper — Perseverance Creates Opportunity (00:06:39) 2. F. Wellington Ruckstuhl — The Courage to Follow One’s Calling (00:17:56) 3. Henry Merwin Shrady — Discovering Hidden Genius (00:24:59) 4. Marshall P. Wilder — Triumph Over Physical Limitation (00:35:38) 5. Richard Mansfield — The Power of Earnestness (00:42:20) 6. John Philip Sousa — Discipline Behind Greatness (00:51:09) 7. Helen Keller — The Victory of Patient Effort (01:05:39) 8. John Burroughs — Choosing Wisdom Over Wealth (01:21:32) 9. Helen Miller Gould — Wealth Used for Service LITTLE VISITS WITH GREAT AMERICANS: Timeless Secrets of Success, Leadership & Perseverance from History’s Greatest Self-Made Men - PART 2 - Orison Swett Marden (1905). Little Visits with Great Americans is a timeless treasury of wisdom, character studies, and inspiring life lessons from some of the most remarkable personalities of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this extraordinary volume, Marden travels beyond ordinary biography to uncover the hidden principles behind greatness, perseverance, leadership, philanthropy, creativity, and moral strength. Every chapter reveals how ordinary individuals, often beginning in hardship, obscurity, failure, or physical limitation, rose through determination, self-belief, discipline, and devotion to higher ideals.This volume of the Secrets of Success & Wealth podcast explores the lives of artists, entertainers, reformers, ministers, educators, politicians, entrepreneurs, and visionaries whose stories demonstrate that success is not merely financial achievement, but the full development of human character and usefulness. Marden’s interviews and portraits are filled with practical inspiration, showing listeners how persistence, purpose, optimism,…

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