It is with some hesitation that this little book entitled The Secret of Success. Not that we are not in sympathy with the subject – not that we do not believe that there is a Secret of Success – but because there has been so much written on the subject of Success that is the veriest twaddle – masses of platitudinous wordiness – that we hesitate to take the position of a teacher of Success.

It is so easy to fill pages of paper with good advice – it is so much easier to say things than to do them – so much easier to formulate a code of precepts than to get out into the field of active endeavor and put into practice the same percepts. And you may imagine why we hesitate to assume a role which would lay us open to the suspicion of being one of the do as I tell you and not as I do teachers of the Art of Success.