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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
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70 The Ten Roads to Riches
MOGUL
MEANDERING
A more reliable way to wealth and celebrity is becoming a media
mogul. Moguls straddle the breadth
of
media and entertainment.
They
own studios, cable companies, networks, record labels, maga-
zines, and maybe sports teams. Moguls even produce movies and
music. As opposed
to
talents, moguls are far richer.
The
Forbes
400
is littered with moguls like:
Michael
Bloomberg,
Bloomberg founder and
current
New
York mayor ($11.5 billion)
II
Charles
Ergen,
founder
of
EchoStar ($10.2 billion)
II
Rupert
Murdoch
, News
Corp
CEO,
just
bought
the Wall
Str
eet
Journal
($8.8 billion)
II
Sumner
Redstone,
owns major stakes in Viacorn and CBS, gave
Tom Cruise a public upbraiding (which Cruise likely deserved)
($7.6 billion)
II
James
c.
Kennedy
and
Blair
Parry-Okeden,
brother
and
sister, Cox Cable heirs. He's the
CEO
($6.3 billion a piece)
1'1
David
Geffen, founded Geffen records and co-founded
DreamWorks, college drop-out and former mailroom clerk, erst-
while friend of the Clintons ($6 billion)22
It
goes on and
on-through
George
Lucas
($3.9 billion),
Steven
Spielberg
($3 billion) and beyond. You
get
the point.
Not
a single pure "talent" amongst the richest of the rich, yet plenty
of
moguls. Bigger bucks and longer-lasting opportunity!
Murdoch
is
77, Geffen's a spry
65-both
in their prime.
It
requires grit, deter-
mination, business
savvy,
but
not
Cameron
Diaz's looks or youth.
Though
I've listed the biggest of the big, there are obviously myr- ...
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