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Good entertainment

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I read this book for the sake of entertainment. I am a strongly numerate and literate person who works extremely hard but I am not the entrepreneur type. Reading this book which was well written (the author is a poet as well as an entrepreneur) was entertaining, however, and told me many things that I had long suspected about top business people. I am more the academic/professional/adminstrator type than the entrepreneur or sales type and have no intention of trying to get rich as opposed to merely comfortable. I think that the author is honest enough to admit that most people will fail in business, that being rich doesn't always make one happy and that there is a price to pay in trying to become rich (the author hints at a moral price) over and above the sheer hard slog involved. Good for entertainment which is all I read it for.

Felixe is a living legend

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Felix Dennis is the first person to lay bare how difficult it is to become rich and how it will ruin your friendships and make you selfish and paranoid and so many other things - and yet in this frank account of how he amassed his £750M fortune I'm only encouraged to keep going and to get there myself. A frank and realistic account of a great life story that continues with Felix's poetry today - the mans a legend!

Read between the lines

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I bought this book in an airport departure lounge and was hooked before I boarded the plane. If you take this book at face value then you're missing the point. If you think reading this book is going to get you rich then you're missing the point. What this book will tell you is whether you are the kind of individual who can make the sacrifices required to become rich. Anybody who lusts at the idea of being stupidly wealthy should read this book, and after finishing it ask themselves if they really have the dedication to follow it through. Frankly (and I think Mr. Dennis would agree) there is no shame if you haven't. But I know he would also agree that you're not going to make a penny just reading books. So get out there and do it.

truthful

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Wow. Dennis certainly spells out the cost of getting rich: you need persistence, tunnel-vision and relentless drive, you must sacrifice ALL leisure time, relationships and security. Most of the other get-rich books I've read try to make it seem much easier than it really is, glossing over the vital information Dennis provides. Dennis is so much more truthful than the likes of Kiyosaki, Trump and Robbins. I am now, at last, prepared to settle for comfortable because - like the silent majority - I never want to become obsessed, to have my life taken over. But, if someone is already an addictive personality, why not choose getting rich instead of whatever substance or process they're currently abusing? However, it's also worth reading "The Millionaire Mind" and "Automatic Millionaire" for other takes on getting rich. Those books detail gentler, proven ways of becoming comfortable (a few million) as opposed to the obsession required to become really rich (tens or hundreds of millions).

Read it, it's worth every page

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This book really focuses on it's title, i.e. getting rich. It's not written with some sort of teaching methodology. It's purely honest and wise advice stemming from someone who traveled the long road to getting rich. You will read about riches, failure and luck, character/personality strengths, negotiation and delegation, how to start and run your business... Everything straight from Felix's experience. It's simple, it's clear and it's realistic, it doesn't beat about the bush. Plus it is interspersed with anecdotes, funny comments and poetic bits which make it a really pleasant read. You will learn and enjoy!