How to Be a Billionaire
Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth

Note to self: Work hard, be a great negotiator, frugality pays, copying pays more than innovating, go public in the stock exchange, investing in the market alone will not amass billions - but going out there and actually making deals with people face to face will yield a greater return.......more

If you can pay the price here are the strategies: Decide to become super-rich Choose a growing industry Overcome the levelers Resist social convention How not to become a billionaire: ”relying on salary”, ”playing the stock market”, ”laziness”, ”not learning new things”, ”being wasteful”, "not having goa......more

This book opened my eyes to what it takes to get to billionaire status. Millionaire is average but billionaire is extraordinary. You need to disrupt the market with a breakthrough idea or concept that will be huge if you want to be a billionaire. Most of the book explores previous billionaires like B......more

As the book was first published more than decade a ago, it may appear somewhat dated by omitting some of the more recent fashionable billionaires, but nevertheless it provides a nice overview of the careers and principles of some of the most iconic billionaires in history. We are provided with a sho......more

The author tries to identify what the superrich did right and tries to formalize it in some structure. I use the word `try' because becoming rich is no hard science. We don't know what works and what doesn't. Unfortunately, the number of ways to do something wrong always exceeds the number of ways t......more