A disliked man does not go very far. He generally leaves the neighborhood. Now and then, a genius, like Galileo or Whistler, may walk on a lonely path from choice, or from the compulsion of the creative spirit within him; but few of us need to follow such examples. -from "Think More of People and Less of Things" Do your job a little better than expected. Learn all you can from those above you. Waste no time on little things. Back yourself to win. The business advice in this handy little book, first published in 1926, are the bricks that build solid foundations for success, but they're ones that far too many who strive for success forget along the way. Casson, a business journalist, knows wherefrom he speaks: he met and interviewed many of the biggest successes of the early 20th century, and the knowledge and wisdom he gleaned from those meetings is still pertinent today. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Casson's Creative Thinkers. Canadian journalist HERBERT NEWTON CASSON (1869-1951) contributed to numerous New York and London publications, writing mostly about business and technology. He is also the author of The Romance of Steel: The Story of a Thousand Millionaires (1907) and The History of the Telephone (1910).