If you expressly want to be rich you have immediately separated yourself from the ‘loyal lieutenants’ that fill the world’s workplaces.

growing industries with relatively low start-up costs offer more opportunities for those who want to get rich than declining industries, or those that require huge start-up investment.If you want to be rich, you are not looking for a “career,” except as a launch pad or as a chance to infiltrate and understand a particular industry.

But sniggering and mockery prior to any attempt to better yourself financially, followed by envy later, or gloating during your initial failures—these are three certainties in life. Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. And knowledge is power, at whatever age, whether earned by blood and tears or imbibed at a mother's breast. If you haven’t much skill, or much wit, or much talent, or much luck, and yet you insist on owning more than your fair share of any start-up or acquisition, then you can become rich. It is also interesting to read a book that is based on an individual who speaks from their own experience and is credited by their success.As a lover of trees, his lifetime ambition was the planting of a large native broadleaf forest in Warwickshire. This is due to Dennis’s many paradoxes and analogies, which are used to portray a rather pessimistic picture of what the realities of having money actually are. Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, How To Get Rich is an invaluable guide to 'the surprisingly simple art of collecting money which already has your name on it'. Rightly, he has very harsh words for the whiner who blames others - especially his family - for not being rich: it doesn't work like that.