How to Get Rich

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The author endorses Brian Epstein's quest to select the most talented people and then seems to ask "did it matter? Starting a business with the aim to make millions will often mean you’ll be shamefully grovelling for capital early on. How To Get Rich is an entertaining, rollicking read that many people (even those not much interested in money) finish in a day or two thanks to its humor and fast pace. If we were making "profits," asked the "analysts," weren't we in danger of "wasting" money that could have been invested to produce more "growth"? Dennis makes it brutally clear that having money does not bring happiness - not in a moralistic condemnation of wealth per se (it certainly brings a lot of pleasure and experience and he clearly respects the personal service workers who helped him in this respect).

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? Conventional wisdom daunts initiative and offers far to many convenient reasons for inaction, especially for those with a great deal to lose. People like Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett, Naval Ravikant, and many other millionaires and billionaires. He had homes in England, the USA, St Vincent and the Grenadines and died of cancer in June 2014 at his home in Warwickshire.Wealth makes many demands and, by the time you have acquired it, you will be prey to certain habits. But in a good year he puts 20-30 million pounds on the bottom line and earns a gross margin of over 20 percent. It is because you have humiliated them, in their minds anyway, both by succeeding and by valuing the time it took for you to succeed over their part in your life.

Your parents were probably wrong about your early education in adult survival, A good job is a slow stranglehold if your not excited by what you do for most of the day!if you want to be rich, working a damn sight harder than the punk next to you is the only sensible option .

Imprisoned in 1971 as co-editor of OZ magazine and acquitted on appeal, he founded his own magazine publishing company in 1973 and made millions with the sale of Personal Computer World and MacUser in the mid-eighties. There are so many reasons not to do anything, many of them highly persuasive, especially in the mouth of a Jeremiah. 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. Plenty of people are ambitious, but this drive is usually channelled into career success, not on amassing money per se. But either you control and develop such ideas or the ideas will come to dominate your waking thoughts.You can skip the poetry if that is not your thing (it certainly is Dennis' thing in self-indulgent mode but, hey, when you are worth the millions he is, who does he have to please?

If I were writing a book about how to be happy, then I would recommend much to you along the same lines. That's not how his company describes itself in its annual report, but essentially that is what it does, along with building incineration plants. 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 you can ride the roller coaster, Dennis often points out, and can banish or control your fears, you will discover that “the world is awash with money with your name on it, waiting to be claimed”.After all, what are banks and venture capitalists but usurers who offer you an umbrella when the sun is shining and snatch it away the instant a few rain clouds appear? More men and women have become rich by this single tactic than all “the best-laid plans of mice and men” guided by plodding strategy. 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. Unfortunately, as many books promise ''something'' Felix is swift at saying what the reader wants to read, but not delivering it.