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

by Ken Fisher, Lara W. Hoffmans
November 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
256 pages
10h 55m
English
Wiley
Content preview from The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)
Rich
..
. and Famous 161
In 2000, he cofounded 2929
Entertainment-a
media holding
company
-and
he's chairman of
HDNet,
a high-definition cable
station. In 2007, he joined the cast of
Dancing with the
Stars-a
real-
ity show pairing D-list celebrities with professional ballroom danc-
ers for a weekly dance battle.
This
qualifies him as talent as much
as
other
celebrities who've appeared on the show. (Though he's
a bit of a cheater. At one point, he made a living as a disco-dance
instructor.)
7
My editor feared I sounded too mean-spirited in describing
Cuban-particu
larly my last few sentences that don't make him
sound like a great ta
lent-and
that you wouldn't like that. And it's
true-I
really haven't said anything really laudatory about him.
Well,
I'm
pretty sure it's the other way around and that I haven't
said anything sufficiently nasty about Cuban to make him really like
it.
For
him to love it, I'd have to rag on him pretty heavily. And I
like him. Ok, Mark, this is just for you: You're a dirty rotten blah,
blah, blah. Feel better?
For
the rest of you readers, my point is that
if you've made a bundle as a mogul and you know how, you can go
from the
rich to the famous as a celebrity, just like
Mark
Cuban did.
THE
TALENT
SHOW
So how do you become a rock star,
NFL
pro, or Cameron Diaz?
Thi
s road's journey starts young. If you're past age 15 and starting
football, you won't ever go pro. Sorry. For acting maybe you can
start a bit lat ...
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