Excerpt from Men of Business The road to success in business is not a nar row, hedged-in highway. It is not even one road, but many pathways, each of which may be followed across the great field of life, if entered by the type of human character adapted to it. The types are varied, and often they are blended.. Any profitable study of them, however, can be best performed by selecting a few distinct and marked examples. This has been attempted in a series of brief character sketches of eminently successful careers, each emphasizing some domi nant trait. It has been deemed well to employ the portraits of the living as well as of those whose work is finished. It is somewhat like a gallery, therefore, in which are presented like nesses of the warrior, the statesman, the diplo matist, the artist, the pioneer, the adventurer, the inventor, the explorer, the organizer, the foreseer, and other types of business men whose success is beyond dispute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.