By Steven D. Price
What the super-rich and others need to say approximately cash in those pages is typically enlightening, occasionally profound, frequently enjoyable, and continually revealing. issues comprise wealth ('If you'll be able to count number your cash, then you definitely aren't relatively a wealthy man.' —J. Paul Getty); making an investment ('Only purchase whatever that you'd be completely chuffed to carry if the industry close down for ten years.' —Warren Buffett); luck ('The mystery of good fortune is to do universal issues uncommonly well."—John D. Rockefeller); and management ("The greenback stops with the fellow who symptoms the checks."—Rupert Murdoch). moreover are proverbs, quips, and different remark on all features of getting a fortune.
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