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

Marry Well. Really Well 179

of

men

surveyed said they'd

marry

for

money

too. Interestingly,

women in

their

20s had

both

the

highest expectations

of

divorce

(71 percent) and

the

highest asking prices ($2.5 million).'

I re-emphasize, marrying rich doesn't mean marrying badly.

My

paternal

great

-grandfather,

Phi

lip 1. Fisher, worked his who le

life for Levi

Strauss-the

person and

the

firm.

My

grandfather,

Dr

.

Arthur

L. Fisher (whom I wrote

about

at length in my last

book), was a direct beneficiary

of

marrying for

money

and so am 1.

His

elrlesr

sister

C:lrolin

e

openly

married

for

money

in

the

nine-

teenth

century

when

courted-throug

h my great-grandFather's

introd

uction-by

a wealthy Levi Strauss relative,

Henry

Sahlein.

Typical

of

nineteenth-century

marriages, she came to love him

dur

-

ing marriage.

This

was just the way it was

done

back then.

He

p

ro-

vided for

her

generously. She in

turn

provided for

her

many family

members, including

putting

her

brother

(my grandfather)

through

medical school and my father

through

college.

If

she

hadn't

mar-

ried for money,

I'm

certain my youth would have been

tougher

.

I benefited

through

three

generations. Even now,

there

's an annual

Thanksgiving

dinner

Caroline

started in

the

1920s for

the

family.

Now

it's

run

by her granddaughters all in th eir 70s and 80s. I go

almost every year and give thanks for

Caro

line marrying for

money

.

Today,

the

only difference is you want to establish love before

the

wedding vows. Otherwise the same principles apply.

HOW

TO

MARRY

A

MILLIONAIRE ...