How to be a Billionaire looks at the careers, the methods, and the minds of self-made billionaires to distill the common keys to titanic accumulations of wealth. Each chapter explores a specific strategy and brings it to life through extended profiles of past and present masters of the art of making money.
Learn from Sam Walton, founder of the Wal-Mart retail chain, how his supreme devotion to copying the methods of other successful discounters succeeded better than innovation. Observe how to out-manage the competition through the example of Richard Branson: when the founder of Virgin Atlantic needed to reduce his staff by 400 people, 600 volunteered to take off a few months on sabbatical.
A manual for success that can benefit every aspiring tycoon, How to be a Billionaire is a fascinating read for anyone intrigued by wealth and how it's gotten.
MARTIN S. FRIDSON is Managing Director at Merrill Lynch & Company and a member of Institutional Investor's All-America Fixed Income Research Team. He is the author of It Was a Very Good Year, Investment Illusions, and Financial Statement Analysis. He serves on the board of the Association for Investment Management and Research.
