Orison Swett Marden was an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement. Marden expounds on many of the personal transformations one must make to be successful and influential. Published in 1911 the table of contents includes if you can talk well; put beauty into your life; enjoying what others own; personality as a success asset; how to be a social success; miracle of tact; I had a friend; ambition; education by reading; discrimination in reading; reading a spur to ambition; self-improvement habit, a great asset; raising of values; self-improvement through public speaking; what a good appearance will do; self-reliance; mental friends and foes.