Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Confucius -- 1. Wit and Wisdom -- Chapter 2 Laozi (also Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tzu, Laotze) -- 1. The Evidence of Simplicity -- Chapter 3 Aristotle -- 1. The Subject of Ethics is the Good for Man -- Chapter 4 Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki) -- 1. The Tale of Genji - Chapter I - Kiritsubo2 -- Chapter 5 Bernier -- 1. The Divided Horsecloth -- Chapter 6 Niccolo Machiavelli -- 1. Chapter XXII - Ministers -- 2. Chapter XXV - How Far Fortune Influences the Things of this World, and How Far She May Be Resisted -- Chapter 7 Francis Bacon -- 1. Of Studies -- 2. Icarus and Scylla and Charybdis, or the Middle Way. Explained of Mediocrity in Natural and Moral Philosophy -- Chapter 8 William Shakespeare -- 1. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. III -- Chapter 9 Thomas Hobbes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chapter IX - Of the Several Subjects of Knowledge -- 3. Chapter X - On Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour, and Worthiness -- Chapter 10 René Descartes -- 1. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences 1.1. Part I -- 1.1. Part I -- Chapter 11 Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- 1. A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind -- Chapter 12 Adam Smith -- 1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Book I - Of the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Power of Labour and of the Order According to Which its Produce is Naturally Distributed Among the Different Ranks of the People Chapter I - Of the Division of Labour -- 2. Chapter II - Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labour -- 3. Book II - Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock -- 3.1. Introduction -- 4. Chapter II - Of Restraints Upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of Such Goods as can be Produced at Home -- Chapter 13 George Washington.

1. Farewell Address -- Chapter 14 John Adams -- 1. Independence -- Chapter 15 Patrick Henry -- 1. An Appeal to Arms -- 2. Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death -- Chapter 16 Thomas Jefferson -- 1. Inaugural Address -- Chapter 17 Thomas Paine -- 1. These are the Times That Try Men's Souls -- Chapter 18 Ralph Waldo Emerson -- 1. Self-Reliance -- 2. Compensation -- 3. Power -- Chapter 19 Abraham Lincoln -- 1. Lincoln at Gettysburg -- Chapter 20 Karl Heinrich Marx -- 1. Chapter IV - Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties -- Chapter 21 Andrew Carnegie -- 1. Labor - The Upward March of Labor -- 2. The Final Relation Between Capital and Labor - Labor and Capital Partners -- Chapter 22 Alfred Marshall -- 1. Chapter V - The Scope of Economics -- 2. Chapter VIII - Industrial Organization -- Chapter 23 Russell Conwell -- 1. Acres of Diamonds -- Chapter 24 Elbert Hubbard -- 1. Publisher's Preface -- 2. Apologia -- 3. A Message to Garcia -- Chapter 25 Louis Brandeis -- 1. Industrial Democracy -- 2. Absolutism in Industry -- Chapter 26 Thorstein Veblen -- 1. An Early Experiment in Trusts -- Chapter 27 Alfred North Whitehead -- 1. On Foresight -- 2. Requisites for Social Progress -- Chapter 28 O. Henry -- 1. The Gift of the Magi -- 2. The Unknown Quantity -- Chapter 29 George Santayana -- 1. The Last Puritan, A Memoir in the Form of a Novel - Epilogue -- Chapter 30 Irving Fisher -- 1. The Risk Element -- Chapter 31 W.E.B. DuBois -- 1. The Black United States -- Chapter 32 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) -- 1. The Birth of Satyagraha -- Chapter 33 Calvin Coolidge -- 1. The Supports of Civilization -- 2. Thought, The Master of Things -- 3. The Press Under a Free Government -- 4. Government and Business -- Chapter 34 Alfred E. Smith -- 1. Post-Election Radio Address -- Chapter 35 Owen D. Young.

1. General Electric Develops a Labor Policy -- Chapter 36 William O. Douglas -- 1. Chapter I - The Forces of Disorder -- 1.1. Destructive forces in finance -- 1.2. The "Curse of Bigness" -- 2. Chapter V - Corporation Managements -- Chapter 37 Arthur E. Nilsson -- 1. Making Securities Secure -- Chapter 38 Fred Schwed, Jr. -- 1. Chapter VIII - Investment - Many Questions and a Few Answers -- Headaches of the Wealthy -- A Little Wonderful Advice -- Price and Value - Our Special Market Letter -- Cash as a Long-Term Investment -- Sources.