Preface
It was a eureka moment.
I was working on a dividend spreadsheet, changing the variables, when the size of the numbers I saw surprised me. I realized that if my kids' money was invested according to the formula I was working with, they should never have any financial problems in adulthood, no matter what job or career they choose.
I also recognized that using the same formula, my wife and I should never have to worry about income in retirement.
And last, I understood that if my parents invested according to the formula, they, too, should have no worries about income in old age.
That's when I knew I had to write this book.
Get Rich with Dividends is for the average investor—the investor who is just getting started and the investor who is playing catch-up, the investor who has been burned by the booms and busts of the recent past and the investor who trusted the wrong advisor and ended up paying thousands of dollars for worthless advice.
This book is for all investors who are serious about creating real wealth for themselves and their families, investors who are willing to learn a simple system for making their money work as hard as they do (or did). It's easy to learn and implement and takes very little free time. Importantly, it's not a theory. It's been proved to work over decades of bull and bear markets.
And it's designed for investors who have other things they'd rather do than spend hours on their portfolios. Implement the 10–11–12 System and let stocks and time ...