The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)

ACKNOWLEDG

MENTS

The

notion for this book stemmed from conversations between

literary agent

Jeff

Herman, me, and David Pugh, the

John

Wiley &

Sons editor of my 2006 New rork Times best seller, The Only Three

Questions That Count.

Before that book,

Jeff

wanted me to write a

broad wealth

book-an

all encompassing ultra-wide spectrum book

covering the waterfront. I hadn't written a book in a long, long time

and didn 't feel like taking on that project,

but

ultimately evolved to

do

Thr

ee Questions which was a much more narrow capital markets

b

ook-

and where I felt confid

ent

I could offer unique insights. Still,

after that,

Jeff

wanted me to do a wealth book. And David wanted

another book (and broader spectrum to him meant it might sell

even

bett

er). It was really only when we started talking about focus-

ing on only the mega-wealthy as a road map for everyone else that

I saw something I wanted to

do-and

knew I could do. For

that

,

I thank them b

oth

for their patience with me.

So then I went back to Lara Hoffmans who worked with me

in crafting my prior Wiley book. Pri or to that book she had been

an investment counselor in my firm's client services group

but

since

then had becom e a manager in our content group. It produces all

our written client communications including client reviews, market-

ing materials, and

our

daily webzine, www.marketminder.com.

The

c

ontent

group is also responsible for, and Lara as been instrumental

in, the