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Wealth Secrets : How the Rich Got Rich

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Discover how the superwealthy made it to the top (and you can too ) From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters, strategies, and sacrifices reveal how the wealthiest did it, usually by a passion for finding loopholes, working around bureaucratic systems, and creating obstacles to competitors. Wealth Secrets of the One Percent gets at the heart of our feelings about the 1% of top income earners and the roughly 0.0001% who achieve billionaire status: we love to hate them, but we'd love to be them. Wilkin's insight into the sources of wealth is thought-provoking and rigorous, and he reveals that behind almost every great fortune is a wealth secret -- a moneymaking technique designed to defeat the forces of market competition.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316378956
  • ISBN-10: 031637895X
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books
  • Publish Date: March 2016
  • Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
  • Page Count: 432

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