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Peter B. Kyne’s The Go-Getter has the subtitle The Classic Story That Tells You How to Be One. The hardcover version has less than 100 pages, is fairly straightforward and can be read in a single sitting, say during a plane flight.

Highly motivational, the story harbors valuable success lessons. The full text is available at project Guttenberg.

By way of storytelling it is shown, how an individual with strong convictions and a Go-Getter attitude manages to solve situations that are deliberately constrained by outside forces. The afterword of the book provides a brief analysis of the story to show lessons and describe what it takes - according to the author - to be a Go-Getter.

Short, sweet, lots of good advice.