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Business Brilliant
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Business Brilliant

Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons

Lewis Schiff
HarperBusiness, 2013

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Wealth doesn’t occur in a vacuum. People rise from the middle class to become self-made millionaires for a reason. Although luck and good fortune play a role, successful businesspeople are remarkably similar to the average worker whose fantasies of financial independence somehow never pan out. The difference, author Lewis Schiff makes clear, is that self-made millionaires understand the principles of wealth-building and are willing to implement them. getAbstract recommends Schiff’s hard-nosed, real-world advice to those who want to get ahead.

Take-Aways

  • Millionaires differ from nonmillionaires in their understanding of the mechanics of producing wealth and their willingness to act on what they know.
  • Own a financial stake in what you do, find investors to back you, make as many contacts as possible and learn from your business mistakes.
  • The following seven principles of “Business Brilliance” enable middle-class people to achieve prosperity:

About the Author

Lewis Schiff, co-author of The Middle Class Millionaire and The Armchair Millionaire, is the executive director of the Inc. magazine’s Business Owners Council.

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