- National Library of Scotland, John Murray Archives (此后缩写为NLS), Acc12927/285/H8 Samuel Smiles, general file, letter, Smiles, February29,1912. 部分译本是在20世纪20年代稍晚时候才完成的，也有特殊情况，比如1933年的波斯文译本，但大部分似乎是在19世纪后半叶翻译的。
- NLS Acc12927/285/H8 Samuel Smiles, general file, letter, Raj Kumar to John Murray, Dacca, March 4, 1903; Samuel Smiles, general file, letter, B. Banerjee of Banerjee & Co. Booksellers and Publishers to John Murray, Calcutta, November 23, 1911; NLS John Murray, MS 41099, Folio 173, letter, Samuel Smiles to John Murray, March 8, 1869; see also MS 42203, letter, Smiles to Murray, May 11, 1877; see also Acc12927/285/H8 Samuel Smiles, general file, letter, Smiles, February 29, 1912, with a list of existing translations authorized by Smiles or Murray by 1912. 除了几个得到授权的全译本和摘译 本，存在大量没有得到授权的译本。
- Donald M. Reid, "Syrian Christians, the Rags-to-Riches Story, and Free Enterprise," International Journal of Middle East Studies 1, no. 4 (1970): 358-367, esp. 362.
- 关于日本白手起家的男人的观念，参见Earl H. Kinmonth, The Self-Made Man in Japanese Thought: From Samurai to Salary Man (Berkeley: University of Califormnia Press, 1981); 还可参看Earl H. Kinmonth, “Nakamura
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