How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

by Felix Dennis

The follow-through, the execution, is a thousand times more important than a “great idea.” In fact, if the execution is perfect, it sometimes barely matters what the idea is. If you want to get rich, don’t sit around waiting for inspiration to strike. Just get busy getting rich.

Wealth Measured by Cash-in-Hand or Quickly Realizable Assets

“If you can actually count your money, you are not really a rich man.”

Wealth Measured by Total Assets (True Net Worth)

According to my tables of wealth, “rich” starts at a total asset value of $30 million- $80 million (also known as “the lesser rich”).

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying. For as long as you foster a willingness to learn, you will ward off sclerosis of the brain and hardening of the mental arteries. Curiosity has led many a man and women into the valley of serious wealth.

There is no such thing as a permanent champ.

It’s no excuse, but making money is a drug. Not the money itself. The making of the money.

There is no reason on earth why financial success should lead to personal catastrophe. Least of all the odds.

But prompt decisions and orders, right or wrong, are far healthier than endless debate and prevarication.

“OK. Let’s do it.” Or even: “OK. Let’s forget it.”