Reading progress update: I've read 82 out of 700 pages.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell

In order to succeed in the world it was necessary to be brutal, selfish

and unfeeling: to push others aside and to take advantage of their misfortunes:

to undersell and crush one's competitors by fair means or foul:

to consider one's own interests first in every case, absolutely regardless of the well being of others