November 2009
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
10h 55m
English
book
The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)
by Ken Fisher, Lara W. Hoffmans
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Preface
xxi
this book is a logical way to give back so someone, maybe many,
maybe
yOlt,
can see for the first time how you can become rich to
your satisfaction in a logical, methodical manner.
THE
RIGHT
ROAD
Now
you have your roadmap in hand and we're ready to embark.
Consider each chapter a trial run. Maybe the road appeals to you,
maybe not. But there's a right road here for everyone who desires
riches, if you can navigate the common pitfalls.
The
beauty of these
roads is they work in good times and bad. Doesn't matter what's
happening to others on
other
roads-it
only matters that you find
and pursue your road.
Some of the folks profiled here you'll want to emulate. Others
are (sometimes comical) examples of what
not
to do. But even the
more comical folks profiled here have made big wealth. Who's
to say who is right and who is satire? If you want to be rich, who's to
say someone's road wasn't the right one as long as they got down it
happily without breaking the law and with their mortal soul intact?
If
they did it by dancing in a chicken suit as I detail in
Chapter
4,
who are you or I to judge?
May
your own journey start now! At the end of this book if
you've decided none of these ten roads is right for you, and you have
no interest in being a
roads
scholar, at least by reading about the ten
roads you'll have saved yourself the trouble of going through life
and finding yourself at the end of a dead-end road. And that's ...
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