How to Get Rich

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But sniggering and mockery prior to any attempt to better yourself financially, followed by envy later, or gloating during your initial failures—these are three certainties in life. Eight more collections followed, accompanied by sell-out reading tours on both sides of the Atlantic. But either you control and develop such ideas or the ideas will come to dominate your waking thoughts. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Above all, he looks at himself and others without illusion yet with an odd sort of existentialist compassion that makes what he says in this book ring true and be useful.

Some of it is practical - such as how he handled the 4 employees who politely threatened to leave his firm and start a competing company if he didn't give them a quarter of his equity, or the rules he requires all board members to adhere to.

If you are interested in entrepreneurship and financial freedom coupled with some fun – you should read this book. Over the last 20th some years of reading many books, manly autobiographies, better still biographies, and also various forms of psychology etc, every so often I come across a gem of a book. Even for those of us who have heard many of the anecdotes many times before and remember many a meeting when it was said "Don't forget, overhead walks on two legs! The observation, whether it was necessary for Epstein to do this, flies against other advice from the author to hire as many talented people as you can.

If you cannot bear the thought of causing worry to your family, spouse or lover while you plow a lonely, dangerous road rather than taking the safe option of a regular job, you will never get rich. Plenty of people are ambitious, but this drive is usually channelled into career success, not on amassing money per se.The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection is awarded yearly, as part of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Fortunately for you, you do not have anything to lose and can afford to ignore the "jobsworths" and Jeremiahs who have lived upon the mountain for so long that they have come to worship it.

This isn't a perfect book - parts of it could probably be condensed, and I'm not sure he really succeeded in his attempt to explain that key point of how to know when you need to persevere and when it's really time to throw in the towel - but despite these flaws, I think it's quite useful reading for anyone who is thinking about starting or who has recently started a business. Part manual, part memoir, part primer, this book is a template for those who are willing to stare down failure and transform their lives.While I knew nothing of computing (and still do not), the instincts honed by countless hours of shoving money into slots forewarned me of their potential. Importantly, he did not just license the magazines, but put up his own capital in partnership with local firms. 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. He had homes in England, the USA, St Vincent and the Grenadines and died of cancer in June 2014 at his home in Warwickshire.