Martin S. Fridson

How to Be a Billionaire: Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth Martin S. Fridson Library, Unabridged edition

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 Wall-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.