November 2009
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
10h 55m
English
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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
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Steal It
-Li
ke a Pirate, but Legally 97
it too. Be a hero! There's no other road linking all these qualities.
Other roads are about voluntary transactions.
Not
this one.
Simply
Swashbuckling!
If
you've always had a childhood fantasy
to
be a pirate, but don't
like the physical risk
-o
r maybe just get seas
ick-t
his road has all
the other benefits. You can scare the hell out of people. Youcan force
folks to pay you the same basic way mafia protection rackets used
to.
You can swagger and loot. H uge chunks of society will see you
as a crusading savior. And you will feel your victims deserved
it-
that is, if you go about this correctly, as I will describe. And it's
exciting-simp
ly swashbuckling!
One
of the most famous PLs of
all time,
Bill Lerach (now cooling his heels in jai
l-deta
ils later)
open ly bragged of scotch drinking being his prime exercise when
he wasn't terrorizing
CEOs
.
1
He claimed a great scotch arm
-jus
t
like a pirate at the wharf pub. Arg, matey!
Pirates could care less about pedigree. Forget fancy schools.
T heir success isn't about a degree; it's about who they are (pirates).
Top PLs often went
to
mediocre colleges and lackluster law schools.
Fact: You won't need a fancy school either. You needn't go to law
school at all to pass the bar exam in California, Maine,
New
York,
Vermont, Virginia, Washington
DC,
and Washington.i
No
law
degree required to blackmail, extort, loot, pillage, and raid. And
what is a pay
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