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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
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!)
To
invent huge
bucks,
figure
out whatyou can
monetize that no one
else
hasyet.
Inventing Income 149
You can go the conventional r
out
es of inv
ent
ing, songwriting,
or book writing for movies. You do what many have done before,
just slightly differently, and make sure you keep all future rights.
Or
you can go nonconventional and do what hasn't been done before
like Lucas did, maybe on the Internet, cell phone, or next platf
orm
we haven't fathomed.
Th
at's for you to figure, not me.
Th
e possibilities are endless. My advice:
Aim for as broad an audience as possibl
e-a
s
wide an adaptation as possible.
If
not that,
then something uniqu e but vital
to
something
else widely and broadly needed or desired.
The
narrower your scope, the narrower your
road, and the smaller your riches.
POLITICAL
PENSIONS-AND
GOOD
NEWS
Want
a really wide audience? And invented income without any
economic linkage? Try politics! Run this f
ork
well and taxpayers
hand you wealth .
..
for nothing! Fact: In aggregate, politicians
show no ability or comp etency for actually contributing to
our
economy. Most have never taken any road to riches (except marry-
ing for money, and a few as pirates). Few have built, invented, cre-
ated, led, generated, managed, improved, or innovated. Yet most
end up wealthy- invented income.
I don't expect you to become presid
ent
,
but
take the
Clin
tons
.
I want you
to
see how it worked for them.
Th
ey were flat broke
leaving the
White
H ouse bu ...
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