How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets Hardcover

El libro cuenta la historia personal de un emprendedor en Inglaterra, bastante bueno.. lo he comprado porque lo recomendaron en un podcast, tardó un poco en llegar es de tapa blanda pero por todo lo demás excelente libro muchas buenas anécdotas pero tampoco te van a enseñar a hacer dinero paso a paso es mas como una historia de donde se pueden sacar muchos aprendizajes

Well written book, great entrepreneur story

Das ist eines der besten Bücher, das ich über das Reichwerden gelesen habe. Auf eine ehrliche, sympathische und humorvolle Art&Weise werden die m. E. äußerst wertvollen Fakten auf den Tisch gehauen. Wenn man wirklich von ganzem Herzen reich werden will, keine Dummheiten macht, Chancen ergreift und konstant Feuer unterm - sorry - Arsch hat, ist es eines Tages soweit ...

Witty, entertaining, fun and full of honest advice on how to get rich.If you are looking for the get rich fad of the month, look elsewhere. This is one of the more honest, truthful books about obtaining (and keeping) wealth you will find. The information is presented in a lively, entertaining manner.However you will quickly find that Felix offers no shortcuts. Nor does he lead you to believe that it is easy to get rich or that anyone can in fact get rich. Actually on more than one occasion, he advises that getting rich is not all that it is cracked up to be. And before you make all the sacrifices you should do some real soul searching about the cost and the benefits.So what is the secret to getting rich? While there are no secrets, there are plenty of things you must do if you really want to get rich. The first is you must be "utterly determined". Most people will not get rich because they are not fully committed to getting rich.Felix defines rich a little different than most "get rich gurus". His definition is someone with a net worth greater than one hundred fifty million.The book is brutally honest about the value of ideas. Ideas are not important. Execution is "one thousand times more important than a great idea. The day to day follow through, doing the work, sticking with an idea long enough to make it work, these are the traits which can make anyone rich. However most people will not stick with an idea, they will not put in the effort. We have become addicted to "instant results". Expecting instant results is folly.We have become a nation of information gatherers. Most people are highly knowledgeable. But as Dennis quotes Emerson, "No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken." And therein lies the problem. We know but do not do. Getting rich is all about doing.The premise of the book is very valid. "Times change but people basically do not change." Therefore business models must change with the times. The bright shinny objects that we spend our money on will change, but the reasons, the emotional needs for spending the money do not change. If you wish to get rich, you must understand this basic concept. You cannot chase last years money maker. You need to be looking forward.The major reason that people do not do better, do not in fact get rich is fear. Not just fear of failure, but fear of the "embarrassment of failure". If you want to get rich, you must stare down all your fears. You will not banish them, but you must conquer them or they will surely conquer you.The most important line in the entire book, in fact the essence of the book is this: "Getting rich comes from an attitude of mind. It isn't going to happen if things drift on pretty much the way they are right now." If you truly want to achieve extraordinary wealth, you must adopt an attitude of mind that makes getting that wealth the most important thing in your life.But instead of letting a desire for wealth rule our life, we let fear rule our life. As long as fear rules our lives, we will be timid, we will hold back.You will get to know a lot about the man by reading this book. He freely admits to making many mistakes. But he also learned from them.There is so much wisdom about life and business in the book. It would be great if all entrepreneurs could read the book and thereby gain the wisdom. But I am afraid that each of us still needs to learn the hard way. It is like Michel de Montaigne said, "We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." There is much wisdom in the book. Perhaps by reading it, you will gain a short cut to wisdom about what is important in life.

Over the last 20th some years of reading many books, manly autobiographies, better still biographies, and also various forms of psychology etc, every so often I come across a gem of a book. How to Get Rich is one of them for me.One of the tests of a good biographer in my opinion is that when you finish the book you feel like you was one of your best friends, and this book did that for me.Although of course in this case the book is focusing on Felix's business endeavours rather than his personal life, but it's written in a very UN stuffy straight from the hip way with great insight to the mentality to the feelings and desires of the author.Felix points out that quite simply most "get rich quick" books are written by people who are not rich themselves! But are just trying to get their by selling their books full of psychology babble.In this case the book is written by the "Real McCoy" a rich guy starting from nothing.He's not trying to promise that you will get rich with false hope, in fact quite the contrary at the very beginning he points out of the VERY few people ever get in the super rich bracket.What also makes the journey through the book really enjoyable is the wicked wit and sense of humour of Felix with little bursts of insightful poetry.Myself a businessman of 24 years with a company which installs CCTV and Security Equipment but I'm in a much smaller pond to Felix, but id feel his book will help me, and if I don't achieve the goal of the title, at least it might hoist me a few rungs, and if not it was a great read anyway !And just in the process of reading How to Get Rich for the second time, don't miss this one!!And if you ever read this little review Felix, I love to take on new challenges. I run a few secondary business/ fun projects. No point in waiting until some day to enjoy life when I am super rich you Felix you have already pointed out how unlikely my chances are, So I might as well get and enjoy it anyway as a combatable poor ! Example I am Sir Roger Moore's web manager(the 007 actor and more importantly a UNICEF Ambassador) who answers six questions per month from his fans, which I choose.So how about opening a (Felix) forum to the world's public to discuss not only your books, poetry etc but to ask interesting questions from the business jungle? I'm sure it would be fun and productive. If you're interested please contact me I would love to run it. Alan Davidson