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How to get Rich - Felix Dennis https://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Greatest-Entrepreneurs/dp/1591842719/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486214516&sr=8-1&keywords=How+t

How to get Rich - Felix Dennis https://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Greatest-Entrepreneurs/dp/1591842719/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486214516&sr=8-1&keywords=How+to+get+Rich+-+Felix+Dennis https://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Greatest-Entrepreneurs/d...

SyneRyder 10y ago
The Audible version of this is excellent, one of my favorite Audible purchases. The narration reminds me of British comedies and sets the right tone for the book.
- hueving 10y ago
  I must be blind, do you have a link to the audible version? I can't seem to find it in the audible store search.
  - vmilner 10y ago
    It'll be some US/UK rights nonsense. In the UK: http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Business/How-to-Get-Rich-Audiobook/B009H72LN6/ http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Business/How-to-Get-Rich-Audiobo...
Jugurtha 10y ago
For those put off by the title, Felix Dennis is/was a billionaire and makes a point of differentiating himself from people becoming wealthy giving advice about how to become wealthy. He dropped out of high-school and bummed cigarettes and crashed at friends, apparently. He talks about several lessons and how he remained associated with several people who've helped him when he was "nothing". The case of a banker who agreed to open a bank account for him despite being broke out of sympathy/pity. Dennis likes to write poetry and some of the passages are intense and tear worthy (van Gogh passage). The style is to the point, tells it as it is (He doesn't hesitate to state that his employees are not likely to become wealthy working for him and that he encourages them to fly on their own. He also talks about the less flattering aspects of doing business and says that even between friends, they were on good terms because none of them depended on the venture to survive. He also says never to give shares of your company to anyone and to remain in control). In his subsequent book, 88, he states that people didn't get that "How to Get Rich" was a cautionary tale about what it takes to become wealthy, which is obvious from many passages in the book. [One of which is when he says he'd rather have stopped at £30 million and wrote poetry while young, instead of pursuing becoming rich at an old age). It's a worthy read in style and content. Dennis is buying forests the Government can't take care of in a philanthropic effort to save them.
- segmondy 10y ago
  You write as if he is alive, he died over 2 years ago.
  - Jugurtha 10y ago
    I forgot. The information is still relevant, I hope.
dharmon 10y ago
The title is a little off-putting, but this guy was the most straight-shooting billionaire out there on what getting rich requires. This interview gives a flavor of the style: http://www.inc.com/articles/2008/07/dennis.html http://www.inc.com/articles/2008/07/dennis.html
bubbleRefuge 10y ago
He kind of trashes Steve Jobs in the book basically predicting Steve's hubris will lead to the downfall of Apple. Quote: But with Steve Jobs, Apple will always attempt to mould the universe to fit Steve's vision of Apple, and will pay the price again and again and again Feels like he wrote this just before the IPhone. Another excerpt: Without Jobs, Apple could never have risen from obscurity to become a world-class brand. But with Steve Jobs, Apple will always attempt to mould the universe to fit Steve's vision of Apple, and will pay the price again and again and again. 'Lesser' companies and men will filch their ideas, connect,connect, connect, and beat Apple at its own game. Steve Jobs is not a monster. He is an all-American maverick and a world-class marketing genius. But until a man or woman as powerful as he is arrives at Apple (over his dead body), who is determined to break the cycle he has indulged in for so many years, Apple will remain merely an icon of awe. It will not become a company of the size that truly could (and should) 'bury' monsters like IBM. Not quite Nostradamus there but give him credit for trying.

SyneRyder 10y ago

The Audible version of this is excellent, one of my favorite Audible purchases. The narration reminds me of British comedies and sets the right tone for the book.

hueving 10y ago
I must be blind, do you have a link to the audible version? I can't seem to find it in the audible store search.
- vmilner 10y ago
  It'll be some US/UK rights nonsense. In the UK: http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Business/How-to-Get-Rich-Audiobook/B009H72LN6/ http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Business/How-to-Get-Rich-Audiobo...

Jugurtha 10y ago

For those put off by the title, Felix Dennis is/was a billionaire and makes a point of differentiating himself from people becoming wealthy giving advice about how to become wealthy. He dropped out of high-school and bummed cigarettes and crashed at friends, apparently. He talks about several lessons and how he remained associated with several people who've helped him when he was "nothing". The case of a banker who agreed to open a bank account for him despite being broke out of sympathy/pity. Dennis likes to write poetry and some of the passages are intense and tear worthy (van Gogh passage). The style is to the point, tells it as it is (He doesn't hesitate to state that his employees are not likely to become wealthy working for him and that he encourages them to fly on their own. He also talks about the less flattering aspects of doing business and says that even between friends, they were on good terms because none of them depended on the venture to survive. He also says never to give shares of your company to anyone and to remain in control). In his subsequent book, 88, he states that people didn't get that "How to Get Rich" was a cautionary tale about what it takes to become wealthy, which is obvious from many passages in the book. [One of which is when he says he'd rather have stopped at £30 million and wrote poetry while young, instead of pursuing becoming rich at an old age). It's a worthy read in style and content. Dennis is buying forests the Government can't take care of in a philanthropic effort to save them.

segmondy 10y ago
You write as if he is alive, he died over 2 years ago.
- Jugurtha 10y ago
  I forgot. The information is still relevant, I hope.

dharmon 10y ago

The title is a little off-putting, but this guy was the most straight-shooting billionaire out there on what getting rich requires. This interview gives a flavor of the style: http://www.inc.com/articles/2008/07/dennis.html http://www.inc.com/articles/2008/07/dennis.html

bubbleRefuge 10y ago

He kind of trashes Steve Jobs in the book basically predicting Steve's hubris will lead to the downfall of Apple. Quote: But with Steve Jobs, Apple will always attempt to mould the universe to fit Steve's vision of Apple, and will pay the price again and again and again Feels like he wrote this just before the IPhone. Another excerpt: Without Jobs, Apple could never have risen from obscurity to become a world-class brand. But with Steve Jobs, Apple will always attempt to mould the universe to fit Steve's vision of Apple, and will pay the price again and again and again. 'Lesser' companies and men will filch their ideas, connect,connect, connect, and beat Apple at its own game. Steve Jobs is not a monster. He is an all-American maverick and a world-class marketing genius. But until a man or woman as powerful as he is arrives at Apple (over his dead body), who is determined to break the cycle he has indulged in for so many years, Apple will remain merely an icon of awe. It will not become a company of the size that truly could (and should) 'bury' monsters like IBM. Not quite Nostradamus there but give him credit for trying.