But before dealing with each in turn, let me digress for a moment regarding upbringing , race , colour , educational qualifications and gender .

New or rapidly developing industries, whether glamorous or not, very often provide more opportunities to get rich than established sectors. Those who are prepared to analyze the risk, to bear the humiliation and to act in deadly earnest—these are the “lucky” ones who will find themselves, when the music stops, holding a potful of money. There are decent jobs at decent salaries with decent colleagues and a decent retirement; and all without the heart-stopping fear of bankruptcy, of years of risk amid fears of ignominious failure.You can own equity in a product or a piece of intellectual property (IP) like a book, script, or other artwork.

Conventional wisdom daunts initiative and offers far to many convenient reasons for inaction, especially for those with a great deal to lose. Wealth makes many demands and, by the time you have acquired it, you will be prey to certain habits. But thick enough to shrug off the inevitable sniggering and malicious mockery that will follow your inevitable failures, not to mention the poorly hidden envy that will accompany your eventual success. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.The contrast between its content and typical self-help books stood out - you have to be self-centered; only when one is wealthy, comes the ability to provide. There is one elemental truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one commits oneself, Providence moves all. If you cannot bear the thought of causing worry to your family, spouse or lover while you plow a lonely, dangerous road rather than taking the safe option of a regular job, you will never get rich.