How to Get Rich

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It’s the only way you can disconnect your inputs from your outputs by owning a piece of a business or product. Those who are prepared to analyze the risk, to bear the humiliation and to act in deadly earnest—these are the “lucky” ones who will find themselves, when the music stops, holding a potful of money. I know this from personal experience and have seen many of the principles discussed at work in real life. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. It can provide you with comfort and possessions, but it also often comes with the stress of protecting your wealth and the guilt of figuring out what to do with it.

The biggest rewards go not to those individuals who came up with the idea, nor to those individuals who built the empire. The opening chapters were rather on the folksy side, making me wonder if there was going to be any really useful information in this book or if it was going to turn out to be just another rich man's vanity project.He outlines this abstraction throughout the progression of the text through contradicting ideas such as the need to “feel the fear” yet having the courage to pursue your dreams anyway. He focuses on the psychological toll the getting of wealth can take on one, and provides great practical advice for those that are interested in the journey to getting wealth. But if you’re serious about getting rich, you have to cultivate a strong mental armor to ward off the naysayers. An “Albert” is one who can never become rich simply because they lack the personality or drive to do so; they exist in a grey zone between desire and compulsion. The book is accurate and resonant only because, as a lifestyle entrepreneur myself, my drives are very different from Mr.

There's so much more that you could do with your life, and you want to spend it gathering the money that is hanging from trees out there with your name on it?

Dennis has written many other works of literature in regards to money, which allows him to explore similar concepts of economics and finance in more detail. Perhaps, if I am lucky enough to become old, I will accumulate something else: the courage to give it all away before I die. Not so thick as to blind you to well-constructed criticism and advice, especially from those you trust.

Felix Dennis is the chairman of Dennis Publishing, which publishes The Week among many other magazines. This is one of the most useful and certainly most entertaining books I have ever read in this genre. While other people can work against you due to bigotry or prejudice, money is a neutral substance that does not care about your background.Dennis is brutally clear that getting rich is horribly hard work and you shouldn't undertake it unless you really are committed, since it will probably ruin your marriage, friendships and health.