How to be a Billionaire Proven Strategies from the Titans of Wealth

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-05-23
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

How to Be a Billionaire details the strategies of people who have excelled at a specific human endeavour, namely, making money, and draws out the key tactics and principles that have then made them super-wealthy. Includes Bill Gates, John D Rockefeller Snr, Warren Buffett, Richard Branson.

Author Biography

MARTIN S. FRIDSON is Managing Director at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 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, all published by Wiley. He serves on the board of the Association for Investment Management and Research.

Table of Contents

Part One Accepting the Challenge
Do You Sincerely Want to Be Superrich?
3(28)
How Important Is Choosing an Industry?
31(20)
Part Two Fundamental Strategies
Take Monumental Risks
51(12)
H. L. Hunt
54(5)
John Kluge
59(4)
Do Business in a New Way
63(36)
Ross Perot
65(14)
Sam Walton
79(20)
Dominate Your Market
99(43)
John D. Rockefeller Sr.
104(6)
Bill Gates
110(32)
Consolidate an Industry
142(15)
Wayne Huizenga
146(11)
Buy Low
157(35)
J. Paul Getty
162(8)
Laurence Tisch
170(8)
Warren Buffett
178(14)
Thrive on Deals
192(23)
Kirk Kerkorian
196(9)
Carl Icahn
205(4)
Phil Anschutz
209(6)
Outmanage the Competition
215(22)
Richard Branson
226(11)
Invest in Political Influence
237(20)
Resist the Unions
257(10)
Part Three Putting It All Together
Your Turn
267(8)
Notes 275(26)
Index 301

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