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

by Felix Dennis

only you will cease this endless prevarication and commit yourself. Commit yourself heart and soul, mind. Heart and soul.

There is a place for impetuosity and leaps of faith. A place for belief. That place is here. And the time is now.

For they are not “reasons”; they are excuses. For the most part they are pitiful alibis, half truths and self-serving evasions you have erected to spare yourself from the quiet terror of taking your own financial life in your hands and making your dreams concrete reality. They are the children of fear and the parents of a thousand “if onlys.”

Who knows? You will never find out if you do not try, and if you do not begin trying now.

That clock is still ticking. It’s been traveling at the speed of light while you read all this. Now is the time. Now is the hour. Let’s go. Come on, brother and sister, up off your idle butt. Let’s find ourselves a gazelle with diamonds in its entrails. Time to go. Let’s GO! GO! GO! Let’s go and get rich!

Well, I can’t tell you what the point of making all that money was. Just because I could, I suppose. And because I hated being poor all those years ago.

1. Analyze your need. Desire is insufficient. Compulsion is mandatory. 2. Cut loose from negative influences. Never give in. Stay the course. 3. Ignore “great ideas.” Concentrate on great execution. 4. Focus. Keep your eye on the ball marked “The Money is Here.” 5. Hire talent smarter than you. Delegate. Share the annual pie. 6. Ownership is the real “secret.” Hold on to every percentage point you can. 7. Sell before you need to, or when bored. Empty your mind when negotiating. 8. Fear nothing and no one. Get rich. Remember to give it all away.

Benjamin Jowett: “Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.” The first step? Just do it

And bluff your way through it. Remember to duck! Godspeed . . . and Good Luck!