Thirty-five short years, and presto the newborn art of telephony is fullgrown. Three million telephones are now scattered abroad in foreign countries, and seven millions are massed here, in the land of its birth. So entirely has the telephone outgrown the ridicule with which, as many people can well remember, it was first received, that it is now in most places taken for granted, as though it were a part of the natural phenomena of this planet. It has so marvellously extended the facilities of conversation - that "art in which a man has all mankind for competitors" - that it is now an indispensable help to whoever would live the convenient life. The disadvantage of being deaf and dumb to all absent persons, which was universal in pre-telephonic days, has now happily been overcome; and I hope that this story of how and by whom it was done will be a welcome addition to American libraries.

It is no longer necessary, nor is it wise, for an able ambitious man to be ruthless. He serves himself best by being of service to others. We no longer need coercive Governments to prevent our ambitious men from becoming predatory. We no longer need to tax their money away from them, for fear of a plutocracy. Our rich men now share their wealth. -from "The New Individualism" An idealistic work from a bygone era, this 1929 ode to unfettered capitalism is rather quaint today, but it remains an important work for understanding the ebbs and flows of not only the U.S. national economy, but also the national mood. Singing with the unimpeded optimism of the Roaring 20s, business journalist Casson's valentine to the spirit of the Gilded Age can only be seen ironically, with our hindsight knowledge of the economic devastation about to descend upon the country, but it is engaging reading for those interesting in cultural history. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Casson's Making Money Happily. 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).

Contents of How to Keep Your Money include: buy only what you know; never buy, give or lend nor invest under pressure; speculate on properties, not schemes; buy only what can be resold without a loss; take your profits; ask your banker; buy at the bottom and sell at the top; keep your money moving; borrow all you can use; borrow for expansion, not show; give, but never lend; buy the ordinary shares of the best company in the worst industry.

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.

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1929. In Tips on Leadership or the Life Stories of Twenty-five Leaders, the reader is presented with practical pointers on how to win leadership. Part I is devoted to principles; Part II to personalities - terse, brilliant analyses of how twenty-five outstanding leaders earned their way to the top.

1929. An explanation of the rise and fall of business firms and nations. Another volume from England's leading business writer. Casson explains his Formula of Progress is as follows: In the Evolution of the human race upwards, all progress depends upon the production of a comparatively small number of improved individuals, who are superior to the mass in knowledge, skill or character, and who, by reason of their superior powers, render a new service the mass of people among whom they live. This is the law of the efficient few. It points out that Progress depends upon the differentiation of a few higher quality samples of human beings. The mass of people are never progressive. The mass of people can destroy, but they can never create. They can pull down, but they cannot build up. All the constructive work in the world is done by a few individuals, and usually in spite of the active opposition of the mass. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1929. An explanation of the rise and fall of business firms and nations. Another volume from England's leading business writer. Casson explains his Formula of Progress is as follows: In the Evolution of the human race upwards, all progress depends upon the production of a comparatively small number of improved individuals, who are superior to the mass in knowledge, skill or character, and who, by reason of their superior powers, render a new service the mass of people among whom they live. This is the law of the efficient few. It points out that Progress depends upon the differentiation of a few higher quality samples of human beings. The mass of people are never progressive. The mass of people can destroy, but they can never create. They can pull down, but they cannot build up. All the constructive work in the world is done by a few individuals, and usually in spite of the active opposition of the mass. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

"Snap that reed again, Watson," cried the apparently irrational young professor. There was one of the odd-looking machines in each room, so it appears, and the two were connected by an electric wire. Watson had snapped the reed on one of the machines and the professor had heard from the other machine exactly the same sound.