Wealth Secrets: How the Rich Got Rich

By Sam Wilkin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031637895X
• ISBN13: 9780316378956
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"