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

by Felix Dennis

In the words of the art collector and oil billionaire John Paul Getty: “If you can actually count your money, you are not really a rich man.”

Still, let me repeat it one more time. Becoming rich does not guarantee happiness. In fact, it is almost certain to impose the opposite condition—if not from the stresses and strains of protecting wealth, then from the guilt that inevitably accompanies its arrival.

James Baldwin in his book Nobody Knows My Name, in which he concluded: Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it, and thought of other things if you did.