How to Get Rich

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Felix Dennis (born 1947 in Kingston-upon-Thames, United Kingdom) was a British magazine publisher and philanthropist. This book is suitable for someone who already has a business, and not a small business but probably something like a small corporation. Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. Dennis' book will, if read with attention, do a great deal to point out all those mistakes that a live wire will make (and will probably make anyway because entrepreneurs tend not to listen to their Dads) long before they have to be made.

You get the impression that he would quite like it if the world was different but it is not and he has adapted. It’s the methodology employers use to shackle useful employees to their desks without having to pay them too much. 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. The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection is awarded yearly, as part of the Forward Prizes for Poetry.

And the less you care what the neighbors think, the more likely you are to take the plunge and exploit an opportunity. what does the future hold for a young man or woman determined to become far wealthier than their parents? The two books, while both aimed at obtaining affluence differ in their methodology to achieving such lofty goals. Perhaps, if I am lucky enough to become old, I will accumulate something else: the courage to give it all away before I die.

Born in Kingston-upon-Thames, London, in 1947, Dennis’ parents divorced when he was a toddler and his mother took an accounting qualification to provide him and his brother with a brighter future. When my husband and I started our shoe company, we were, like all other entrepreneurs, completely in denial about what we were in for (despite having both started businesses before). One of the author's main pieces of advice to an entrepreneur is to keep hold of 100 per cent of the equity of an enterprise. When the chance came, they recognized an opportunity, weighed the odds swiftly and placed their lives and careers on the line to snatch a victory.The first few million pounds I ever trousered were a direct result of trusting instincts entirely at odds with conventional wisdom of any sort. More importantly as a businessman he is right more often than he is wrong and his timing is very good. Eight more collections followed, accompanied by sell-out reading tours on both sides of the Atlantic. You can sit in an island in the Caribbean writing poetry if you want to, drinking fine French wine, and the world can go to hell.

It is my hope that this book will cause you to consider very carefully whether you are truly driven by inner demons to be rich. never indulge in fancy furniture, unless your particular business demands that you make such an impression on clients. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. But if you want pleasure and experience, need excitement and to 'feel the fear' and you see anything and anyone as potential tools to the satisfaction of your desires, then entrepreneurship is for you.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'.