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The Top 18 Takeaways from “How to Get Rich,” by Felix Dennis
If you don’t have the time and the focus to read these, you’ll NEVER be rich
From college dropout to centimillionaire publishing magnate — all the while harboring an immense love and talent for poetry and the written word — Felix Dennis certainly had the credentials to write a book like this.
But there’s also something tragic about the overall tone of How to Get Rich — tinged with regret as it is — and he actually spends a fairly large portion of the book trying to convince you not to get rich.
Getting rich can be extremely difficult, it’s uncertain, it takes a long time, it can ruin your relationships, alienate you from the people you work with, and on and on.
He speaks from personal experience, having amassed personal wealth in the area between $600–900M (rich people know how much money they have, but wealthy people are never entirely sure), and you get the sense that he’s suffered all those losses I mentioned above and more.
In fact, he straight up tells you as much, and interspersed with all this great advice about running companies and amassing wealth, he keeps coming back to the question of “Do you really want to do this?”
The answer is non-obvious and shouldn’t be rushed. Read this book first and ask…
