How to Get Rich

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Wealth makes many demands and, by the time you have acquired it, you will be prey to certain habits. Praise, the ability to discern when a good job has been done and the courtesy to say so, fairness, integrity and camaraderie should be employed instead.

If you are not prepared to work longer hours than almost anyone you know, despite the jibes of colleagues and friends, you are unlikely to get rich. It’s not because they don’t love you - it’s because your success brings with it a mirror to their own timidity. As the author so sagely and frequently points out, almost all of the other self-help book authors have no basis for the advice they give. If you never have a single great idea in your life, but b Not many magazine publishers in Britain at the time were prepared to fly economy around the world cutting deals with people they didn’t know.The way it's written, the crazy rich Dennis and everything it's way more useful thsn books like think and grow rich and others. Part manual, part memoir, part primer, this book is a template for those who are willing to stare down failure and transform their lives. Perhaps, if I am lucky enough to become old, I will accumulate something else: the courage to give it all away before I die. If you cannot bear the thought of causing worry to your family, spouse or lover while you plow a lonely, dangerous road rather than taking the safe option of a regular job, you will never get rich.

This genre of literature is nonfiction business as it shares the advice of a multi millionaire, while at the same time explores the many philosophical incentives of being rich. And knowledge is power, at whatever age, whether earned by blood and tears or imbibed at a mother's breast. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The usual excuse of the young is that they don’t have enough experience or capital, and older people that they don’t want to jeopardize the career they have built so far or can’t afford to put at risk the security of their families.Even friends and family will often say they want you to succeed, yet if you do it may just expose their own timidity, and at a deeper level they may actually be pleased if you don’t. He sides with Fitzgerald, noting that what wealth really gives people is confidence, whether from the pride of making it or having been born rich. It is for this reason that so many people have become rich despite never having had a single great idea in their lives. But the heart of the book is in one injunction - applicable whether you are creator (like him) or creative (like GoodReads people) - face fear and make it work for you. The two books, while both aimed at obtaining affluence differ in their methodology to achieving such lofty goals.

Dennis is explicit about the downsides of it all, with the tunnel vision and time usually required for first-generation wealth often coming at the cost of close relationships and family. First let me declare an interest, I worked for the man, not in the early pioneering years but in the middle years, when he had already amassed considerable wealth.This book will give you the facts, as only somone who made 900 million dollars from nothing can, you are either a sheep or a shepherd. He also has a very realistic understanding of the role luck played in his fortunes (his first big financial success came from being in the process of co-writing a biography of Bruce Lee when the star suddenly died), as well as the steps he took to maximize those breaks. If you want to be rich, you are not looking for a "career," except as a launch pad or as a chance to infiltrate and understand a particular industry. This book is the strangest mixture of poetry, ego, wine, sex (barely mentioned with numbers), money and business that I read.