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You will enjoy this book if you like biography in short portraits, old-fashioned self-help, and stories of people who built careers from nothing. It offers practical rules about money, work, time and character.
Che cos’è questo libro
A twelve-year-old boy stands at a ferry landing with a string of horses and no money for the fare. His father forgot to give him the cash. Cornelius Vanderbilt walks up to a stranger, the hotel owner, and offers to leave one horse as security. The owner is struck by the boy's nerve and advances the money. The horse is reclaimed within forty-eight hours.
Hidden Treasures is a collection of life stories written in the late 1800s for young men by Harry A. Lewis. He starts from a plain fact: seven tenths of the most successful men of the country began life poor. He follows financiers, editors, inventors and statesmen from childhood to the peak of their careers. Then he turns their habits into working rules for money, work, time and character.
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- 1Success comes from character, not luckFree
- 2Start at the bottom and master every detail
- 3Spend less than you earn and avoid vices
- 4Choose one aim and give it everything
- 5Failure is a delay and self-reliance is the cure
- 6Use spare moments as capital
- 7Honesty and giving build lasting credit
Punto chiave 1 di 7
Success comes from character, not luck
The book starts from a plain claim. Some people succeed and others fail, and Lewis notes that seven tenths of the most successful men began life poor. A careful look at their lives, he argues, shows habits at work, not good fortune. Luck is the word people use to excuse themselves.
Alexander T. Stewart is his test case. He arrives from Belfast at sixteen, friendless and almost penniless. He later owns a marble store that twenty-five thousand people enter each day. A small inheritance helps him. Lewis insists that he was ready to use it wisely because he had already worked and saved.
John W. MacKay gets the same treatment. The silver he finds on the Comstock Lode looks like a fortune dropped from the sky. Lewis points instead to years of failed hopes and a search through twelve hundred feet of ground at a cost of half a million dollars. Endurance keeps MacKay in the hunt.
Lewis says that will shapes circumstances instead of being ruled by them. A pound of courage, he writes, is worth a ton of luck. Life is not a lottery.
When someone succeeds, ask what that person did in the years before the break came.
That’s 1 of 7 key points.
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- LengthAbout 132,000 words
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What is Hidden Treasures by Harry A. Lewis about?
It is a collection of short biographies of financiers, editors, statesmen, generals, inventors and preachers. Lewis uses them to show why some people succeed while others fail, and he adds chapters of advice on thrift, focus, self-reliance and spare time.
Is Hidden Treasures a true story?
Yes, in the sense that it is nonfiction. It retells the real lives of people such as Vanderbilt, Stewart, Cyrus Field, Garfield and Edison, drawing on newspapers and earlier biographers. It was written in the late 1800s for young readers.
What is the main message of Hidden Treasures?
Lewis claims that success comes from habits and effort, not luck. Thrift, hard work, focus on one aim, honest dealing, self-reliance and good use of time, he argues, carried poor boys to the top of their fields.
Who are the people in Hidden Treasures?
They include business figures such as Daniel Drew, Russell Sage and Cornelius Vanderbilt, editors such as Horace Greeley, presidents and statesmen such as Lincoln and Webster, and inventors such as Watt, Fulton, Morse and Edison.
Is Hidden Treasures easy to read?
Each life gets its own short chapter, so you can read the book in any order and stop wherever you like. The language is plain, and the advice chapters state their rules directly with lively examples.
Cite this edition
Lewis, Harry A. Hidden Treasures. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/hidden-treasures.
Lewis, H. A. (2026). Hidden treasures. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/hidden-treasures (Original work published 1887)
Lewis, Harry A. Hidden Treasures. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/hidden-treasures.
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