How to Get Rich

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Worse still, by continually wishing and never delivering, you risk denting your confidence, beginning a vicious downward spiral that appears to draw misfortune like a magnet. He'd give his whole fortune away to get just ten years more to focus on writing poetry, the real love of his life.

This is a great book for magazine publishers and very interesting for budding and mature entrepreneurs in any business. The nuances of each individual case need not concern us, but the difficulties, as stated by virtually every wannabe I ever listened to on the subject, usually fall into one of three broad categories - often age related. In terms of actionable advice on wealth creation, these are right up there with Naval Ravikant’s must-read How To Get Rich tweetstorm, along with his accompanying podcast episodes. But the earlier you start and the more risks you are prepared to run, tempered by listening hard and choosing the right mountain (we’ll come to that later), the more certain it is that, sooner or later, you will find yourself with a small success on your hands. If young and relatively penniless , many will argue their lack of experience and capital (especially capital!They will not love you less (or more) if you decide to surprise everyone around you and seize the time. Conventional wisdom daunts initiative and offers far to many convenient reasons for inaction, especially for those with a great deal to lose. A fun, entertaining book about entrepreneurship by a kind of an extreme character, Felix Dennis, an English Publisher, telling his own stories, luck, and mishaps. The three reasons for this are availability of risk capital, ignorance and the power of a rising tide. One of the tests of a good biographer in my opinion is that when you finish the book you feel like you was one of your best friends, and this book did that for me.

This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, How to Get Rich is an invaluable guide to 'the surprisingly simple art of collecting money which already has your name on it'. But, if you're interested in seeing how one insightful and introspective fellow made in into the big time, this is an excellent read. True happiness, once a modicum of security is achieved, is about who you are and how you relate to the world regardless of how many things you have. If anything, traditional intelligence and 'book-larning' are disadvantages because they distract and displace intuition.

While other people can work against you due to bigotry or prejudice, money is a neutral substance that does not care about your background.The author endorses Brian Epstein's quest to select the most talented people and then seems to ask "did it matter? Like all sons, he won't listen to his Dad (and no real reason why he should) but he might listen to 'uncle' Felix. Ideas are certainly of immense importance, but I have seen so many people attempting to create a start-up company become obsessed with proving that their idea is “right” rather than obsessed with making money.