How to Get Rich

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He sides with Fitzgerald, noting that what wealth really gives people is confidence, whether from the pride of making it or having been born rich. Heed the words of John Donne, finest of poets: "And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee. if you want to be rich, working a damn sight harder than the punk next to you is the only sensible option . 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. 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.

If young and relatively penniless , many will argue their lack of experience and capital (especially capital! Ideas are certainly of immense importance, but I have seen so many people attempting to create a start-up company become obsessed with proving that their idea is “right” rather than obsessed with making money. It taught me that I'm not willing to sacrifice what it is necessary to sacrifice to get rich, at least not in the way Felix did anyway.The first is our natural desire to avoid letting ourselves or others down, perhaps with calamitous financial repercussions.

Both How to get Rich and The Narrow Road are aimed to inform the audience of both economic and psychological consequences of pursuing wealth, but differ in the amount of focus they place on the negative factors of elitism. You get the impression that he would quite like it if the world was different but it is not and he has adapted. A fun, entertaining book about entrepreneurship by a kind of an extreme character, Felix Dennis, an English Publisher, telling his own stories, luck, and mishaps. If you are not prepared to work longer hours than almost anyone you know, despite the jibes of colleagues and friends, you are unlikely to get rich. When he points this out to non-rich friends, they respond that while this might be the case for him, money definitely would make them happy.

To get the most out of this book you have to believe in its author but it contains a few important contradictions of itself. It takes the immortal words of C Montgomery Burns of The Simpsons to summarise this book: "Family, religion, friends. But either you control and develop such ideas or the ideas will come to dominate your waking thoughts.

Love of any work, diligently undertaken, no matter what it is, brings contentment and, eventually respect. How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis is about becoming rich but not about being a good person nor a great leader or manager. Most people who read this book will not believe him when he says that being rich really won't make you happier (though he does admit it will up your chances of having sex. The contrast between its content and typical self-help books stood out - you have to be self-centered; only when one is wealthy, comes the ability to provide. But the heart of the book is in one injunction - applicable whether you are creator (like him) or creative (like GoodReads people) - face fear and make it work for you.Just the same, it’s much easier to get rich in a growing industry flush with new cash than it is to get rich in a shrinking one on its way out.